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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, jianfeng.tan@intel.com, konstantin.ananyev@intel.com
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal: add asynchronous request API to DPDK IPC
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2018 10:51:32 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180302105127.3e6f274f@xeon-e3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <92186ea34a31743ed76dbd9267f0586da22575f3.1519742486.git.anatoly.burakov@intel.com>

On Tue, 27 Feb 2018 14:59:29 +0000
Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com> wrote:

> This API is similar to the blocking API that is already present,
> but reply will be received in a separate callback by the caller.
> 
> Under the hood, we create a separate thread to deal with replies to
> asynchronous requests, that will just wait to be notified by the
> main thread, or woken up on a timer (it'll wake itself up every
> minute regardless of whether it was called, but if there are no
> requests in the queue, nothing will be done and it'll go to sleep
> for another minute).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>

The problem with this callback model is it makes it possible to
have a single wait for multiple events model (like epoll) which
is the most scaleable way to write applications.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-03-02 21:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-27 14:59 Anatoly Burakov
2018-02-28 10:22 ` Burakov, Anatoly
2018-03-02 18:06 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " Anatoly Burakov
2018-03-07 16:57   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] " Anatoly Burakov
2018-03-13 17:42     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4] " Anatoly Burakov
2018-03-23 15:38       ` Tan, Jianfeng
2018-03-23 18:21         ` Burakov, Anatoly
2018-03-24 13:22           ` Burakov, Anatoly
2018-03-24 12:46       ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 1/2] eal: rename IPC sync request to pending request Anatoly Burakov
2018-03-26  7:31         ` Tan, Jianfeng
2018-03-27 13:59         ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 " Anatoly Burakov
2018-03-27 16:27           ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-03-28  9:15             ` Burakov, Anatoly
2018-03-28 10:08               ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-03-28 10:57                 ` Burakov, Anatoly
2018-03-31 17:06           ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 1/3] " Anatoly Burakov
2018-03-31 17:06           ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 2/3] eal: rename mp_request to mp_request_sync Anatoly Burakov
2018-04-02  5:09             ` Tan, Jianfeng
2018-03-31 17:06           ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 3/3] eal: add asynchronous request API to DPDK IPC Anatoly Burakov
2018-04-04 22:15             ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-03-27 13:59         ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 2/2] " Anatoly Burakov
2018-03-27 16:33           ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-03-28  2:08             ` Tan, Jianfeng
2018-03-28  7:29               ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-03-28  8:22                 ` Van Haaren, Harry
2018-03-28  8:55                   ` Tan, Jianfeng
2018-03-28  9:10                     ` Van Haaren, Harry
2018-03-28  9:21                     ` Burakov, Anatoly
2018-03-28  9:53                       ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-03-28 10:42                         ` Burakov, Anatoly
2018-03-28 11:26                           ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-03-28 12:21                             ` Burakov, Anatoly
2018-03-28  9:11                 ` Bruce Richardson
2018-03-24 12:46       ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 " Anatoly Burakov
2018-03-26 14:15         ` Tan, Jianfeng
2018-03-26 14:28           ` Burakov, Anatoly
2018-03-02 18:48 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] " Stephen Hemminger
2018-03-03 12:29   ` Burakov, Anatoly
2018-03-02 18:51 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2018-03-03 13:44   ` Burakov, Anatoly

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