Hi Hiroyuki,
I am reviewing your 3 timer patches.
Can you please explain in more detail your use-case that results in a
problem?
For example, is it when timer A's callback tries to reset
(rte_timer_reset) timer B?
If yes, is timer B in PENDING state and likely to expire soon?
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Thanks,
Robert
On 7/17/16 2:08 PM, "Hiroyuki Mikita" <h.mikita89 at gmail.com> wrote:
>When timer_cb resets another running timer on the same lcore,
>the list of expired timers is chained to the pending-list.
>This commit prevents a running timer from being reset
>by not its own timer_cb.
>
>Signed-off-by: Hiroyuki Mikita <h.mikita89 at gmail.com>
>---
> lib/librte_timer/rte_timer.c | 12 ++++++++++--
> 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
>diff --git a/lib/librte_timer/rte_timer.c b/lib/librte_timer/rte_timer.c
>index 3dcdab5..00e80c9 100644
>--- a/lib/librte_timer/rte_timer.c
>+++ b/lib/librte_timer/rte_timer.c
>@@ -69,6 +69,9 @@ struct priv_timer {
>
> unsigned prev_lcore; /**< used for lcore round robin */
>
>+ /** running timer on this lcore now */
>+ struct rte_timer *running_tim;
>+
> #ifdef RTE_LIBRTE_TIMER_DEBUG
> /** per-lcore statistics */
> struct rte_timer_debug_stats stats;
>@@ -135,9 +138,12 @@ timer_set_config_state(struct rte_timer *tim,
> while (success == 0) {
> prev_status.u32 = tim->status.u32;
>
>- /* timer is running on another core, exit */
>+ /* timer is running on another core
>+ * or ready to run on local core, exit
>+ */
> if (prev_status.state == RTE_TIMER_RUNNING &&
>- prev_status.owner != (uint16_t)lcore_id)
>+ (prev_status.owner != (uint16_t)lcore_id ||
>+ tim != priv_timer[lcore_id].running_tim))
> return -1;
>
> /* timer is being configured on another core */
>@@ -580,6 +586,7 @@ void rte_timer_manage(void)
> for (tim = run_first_tim; tim != NULL; tim = next_tim) {
> next_tim = tim->sl_next[0];
> priv_timer[lcore_id].updated = 0;
>+ priv_timer[lcore_id].running_tim = tim;
>
> /* execute callback function with list unlocked */
> tim->f(tim, tim->arg);
>@@ -610,6 +617,7 @@ void rte_timer_manage(void)
> rte_spinlock_unlock(&priv_timer[lcore_id].list_lock);
> }
> }
>+ priv_timer[lcore_id].running_tim = NULL;
> }
>
> /* dump statistics about timers */
>--
>2.7.4
>
