Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/2] mempool: add stack (fifo) mempool handler

["Tan, Jianfeng" <jianfeng.tan@intel.com>]

Hi David,


On 5/6/2016 2:29 AM, David Hunt wrote:
> This patch set adds a fifo stack handler to the external mempool
> manager.

Just a minor confusion for me. Usually, we refer stack as LIFO and queue 
as FIFO. So is there any particular reason why we call "stack (fifo)" here?

Thanks,
Jianfeng

>
> This patch set depends on the 3 part external mempool handler
> patch set (v4 of the series):
> http://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/12077/
> which depends on the 36 part patch set for mempool rework
> http://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/12038/
>
> David Hunt (2):
>    mempool: add stack (fifo) mempool handler
>    test: add autotest for external mempool stack handler
>
>   app/test/test_mempool.c                |  26 ++++++
>   lib/librte_mempool/Makefile            |   1 +
>   lib/librte_mempool/rte_mempool_stack.c | 154 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   3 files changed, 181 insertions(+)
>   create mode 100644 lib/librte_mempool/rte_mempool_stack.c
>