Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 3/5] eventdev: add ring structure for events

2017-07-03 Thread Van Haaren, Harry
> From: dev [mailto:dev-boun...@dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Bruce Richardson > Sent: Friday, June 30, 2017 4:06 PM > To: dev@dpdk.org > Cc: olivier.m...@6wind.com; jerin.ja...@caviumnetworks.com; Richardson, Bruce > > Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 3/5] eventdev: add ring structure f

[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 3/5] eventdev: add ring structure for events

2017-06-30 Thread Bruce Richardson
Add in a new rte_event_ring structure type and functions to allow events to be passed core to core. This is needed because the standard rte_ring type only works on pointers, while for events, we want to copy the entire, 16B events themselves - not just pointers to them. The code makes extensive use