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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: Jianfeng Tan <jianfeng.tan@intel.com>
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Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2018 17:22:23 +0200
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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC 0/8] remove IPC threads
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19/04/2018 17:03, Jianfeng Tan:
> As discussed here, http://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/36579/, we will
> try best to avoid thread creation in the library. Now we have two threads
> for IPC, rte_mp_handle and rte_mp_handle_async. This patchset is to
> finish the job.

Thanks for working on it.

> This patchset:
> - is rebased on commit 34345a9b69bb ("eventdev: fix build with icc").
> - also needs http://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/37335/
> 
> Patch 1~2: code cleanup and bug fix. (Target for v18.05)
> Patch 3~4: Remove IPC async thread. (Target for v18.08)
> Patch 5~8: Remove IPC thread. (Target for v18.08)

You should send fixes for 18.05 in a separate series.
It is preferred to merge full series or nothing.