[v5,0/2] Timer library changes

  This patch series modifies the timer library in such a way that
structures that used to be statically allocated in a process's data
segment are now allocated in shared memory.  As these structures contain
lists of timers, new APIs are introduced that allow a caller to specify
the particular structure instance into which a timer should be inserted
or from which a timer should be removed.  This enables primary and
secondary processes to modify the same timer list, which enables some
multi-process use cases that were not previously possible; e.g. a
secondary process can start a timer whose expiration is detected in a
primary process running a new flavor of timer_manage().

The original library API is mostly unchanged, though implementations are
updated to call into newly added functions with a default structure
instance ID that provides the original behavior.  New functions are
introduced to enable applications to allocate structure instances to
house timer lists, and to reference them with an identifier when
starting and stopping timers, and finally, to manage the timer lists
referenced with an identifier.

My initial performance testing with the "timer_perf_autotest" test shows
no performance regression or improvement, and inspection of the
generated optimized code shows that the extra function call gets inlined
in the functions that now have an extra function call. 

Changes in v5:
 - define default_data_id as const (Robert)
 - modify for-loop control in rte_timer_alt_manage and
   rte_timer_stop_all (Robert)
 - change parameter type in rte_timer_alt_manage_cb_t from "void *" to
   "struct rte_timer *" (Robert)

Changes in v4:
 - Updated versioned symbols so that they correspond to the next
   release. Checked ABI compatibility again with validate-abi.sh.

Changes in v3:
 - remove C++ style comment in first patch in series (Stephen)

Changes in v2:
 - split these changes out into their own series
 - version the symbols where the existing ABI was updated, and
   provide alternate implementation with behavior equivalent to original
   behavior. Validated ABI compatibility with validate-abi.sh
 - refactor changes to simplify patches

Erik Gabriel Carrillo (2):
  timer: allow timer management in shared memory
  timer: add function to stop all timers in a list

 lib/librte_timer/Makefile              |   1 +
 lib/librte_timer/rte_timer.c           | 557 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 lib/librte_timer/rte_timer.h           | 258 ++++++++++++++-
 lib/librte_timer/rte_timer_version.map |  23 ++
 4 files changed, 794 insertions(+), 45 deletions(-)
  

15/04/2019 23:41, Erik Gabriel Carrillo:
> This patch series modifies the timer library in such a way that
> structures that used to be statically allocated in a process's data
> segment are now allocated in shared memory.  As these structures contain
> lists of timers, new APIs are introduced that allow a caller to specify
> the particular structure instance into which a timer should be inserted
> or from which a timer should be removed.  This enables primary and
> secondary processes to modify the same timer list, which enables some
> multi-process use cases that were not previously possible; e.g. a
> secondary process can start a timer whose expiration is detected in a
> primary process running a new flavor of timer_manage().
> 
> The original library API is mostly unchanged, though implementations are
> updated to call into newly added functions with a default structure
> instance ID that provides the original behavior.  New functions are
> introduced to enable applications to allocate structure instances to
> house timer lists, and to reference them with an identifier when
> starting and stopping timers, and finally, to manage the timer lists
> referenced with an identifier.
> 
> My initial performance testing with the "timer_perf_autotest" test shows
> no performance regression or improvement, and inspection of the
> generated optimized code shows that the extra function call gets inlined
> in the functions that now have an extra function call. 
> 
> Erik Gabriel Carrillo (2):
>   timer: allow timer management in shared memory
>   timer: add function to stop all timers in a list

Applied with meson fix, thanks