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        "From": "=?utf-8?q?Mattias_R=C3=B6nnblom?= <mattias.ronnblom@ericsson.com>",
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        "Subject": "[RFC v4 0/6] Lcore variables",
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    "content": "This RFC presents a new API <rte_lcore_var.h> for static per-lcore id\ndata allocation.\n\nPlease refer to the <rte_lcore_var.h> API documentation for both a\nrationale for this new API, and a comparison to the alternatives\navailable.\n\nThe adoption of this API would affect many different DPDK modules, but\nthe author updated only a few, mostly to serve as examples in this\nRFC, and to iron out some, but surely not all, wrinkles in the API.\n\nThe question on how to best allocate static per-lcore memory has been\nup several times on the dev mailing list, for example in the thread on\n\"random: use per lcore state\" RFC by Stephen Hemminger.\n\nLcore variables are surely not the answer to all your per-lcore-data\nneeds, since it only allows for more-or-less static allocation. In the\nauthor's opinion, it does however provide a reasonably simple and\nclean and seemingly very much performant solution to a real problem.\n\nOne thing is unclear to the author is how this API relates to\npotential future per-lcore dynamic allocator (e.g., a per-lcore heap).\n\nContrary to what the version.map edit suggests, this RFC is not meant\nfor a proposal for DPDK 24.03.\n\nMattias Rönnblom (6):\n  eal: add static per-lcore memory allocation facility\n  eal: add lcore variable test suite\n  random: keep PRNG state in lcore variable\n  power: keep per-lcore state in lcore variable\n  service: keep per-lcore state in lcore variable\n  eal: keep per-lcore power intrinsics state in lcore variable\n\n app/test/meson.build                  |   1 +\n app/test/test_lcore_var.c             | 439 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++\n config/rte_config.h                   |   1 +\n doc/api/doxy-api-index.md             |   1 +\n lib/eal/common/eal_common_lcore_var.c |  68 ++++\n lib/eal/common/meson.build            |   1 +\n lib/eal/common/rte_random.c           |  30 +-\n lib/eal/common/rte_service.c          | 120 ++++---\n lib/eal/include/meson.build           |   1 +\n lib/eal/include/rte_lcore_var.h       | 375 ++++++++++++++++++++++\n lib/eal/version.map                   |   4 +\n lib/eal/x86/rte_power_intrinsics.c    |  17 +-\n lib/power/rte_power_pmd_mgmt.c        |  36 +--\n 13 files changed, 1006 insertions(+), 88 deletions(-)\n create mode 100644 app/test/test_lcore_var.c\n create mode 100644 lib/eal/common/eal_common_lcore_var.c\n create mode 100644 lib/eal/include/rte_lcore_var.h"
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