From patchwork Wed Sep 9 14:41:13 2020 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: "Carrillo, Erik G" X-Patchwork-Id: 77062 Return-Path: X-Original-To: patchwork@inbox.dpdk.org Delivered-To: patchwork@inbox.dpdk.org Received: from dpdk.org (dpdk.org [92.243.14.124]) by inbox.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D52C9A04B5; Wed, 9 Sep 2020 16:41:25 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [92.243.14.124] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DC9F1C0B4; Wed, 9 Sep 2020 16:41:25 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mga17.intel.com (mga17.intel.com [192.55.52.151]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8932F1BF8E for ; Wed, 9 Sep 2020 16:41:23 +0200 (CEST) IronPort-SDR: Fw95nL8F/WY+HsRBN9hNbiWxIh0zQUj8lNj2P7VVAK7TzifvSMTG/Pli+r4AyYsTxBYq8ToiPI 0eehJ5yf2p8Q== X-IronPort-AV: E=McAfee;i="6000,8403,9738"; a="138377362" X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.76,409,1592895600"; d="scan'208";a="138377362" X-Amp-Result: SKIPPED(no attachment in message) X-Amp-File-Uploaded: False Received: from fmsmga005.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.32]) by fmsmga107.fm.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 09 Sep 2020 07:41:21 -0700 IronPort-SDR: eHAzzXm/0j4FkE8QsX8m3sZAuYDucrkd61XxS0icQO0H9HVp14vbGE2gYcX9NWAG6UKqiFg3iX cPN+F8LoM9KQ== X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.76,409,1592895600"; d="scan'208";a="505473907" Received: from wcpqa1.an.intel.com ([10.123.72.207]) by fmsmga005.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 09 Sep 2020 07:41:21 -0700 From: Erik Gabriel Carrillo To: dev@dpdk.org Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2020 09:41:13 -0500 Message-Id: <1599662474-44882-1-git-send-email-erik.g.carrillo@intel.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.10 Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/1] timer: add limitation note for sync stop and reset X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" Bugzilla ID 491 identifies a couple of scenarios in which calls to the rte_timer_reset_sync() and rte_timer_stop_sync() APIs could hang. Changing the function prototypes such that error codes are returned in these scenarios was considered, but rather than introducing another ABI change, it was proposed to document a usage limitation[1]. This patch adds the notes. [1] https://patches.dpdk.org/patch/75142/ Erik Gabriel Carrillo (1): timer: add limitation note for sync stop and reset lib/librte_timer/rte_timer.h | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)