This patchset adds a generic channel for multi-process (primary/secondary) communication.
Patch 1: addess the purpose and howto; Patch 2: add a syncrhonous way for those messages which need a response immediately. Patch 3: Rework vfio to use this generic communication channel. Jianfeng Tan (3): eal: add channel for multi-process communication eal: add synchronous multi-process communication vfio: use the generic multi-process channel lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_proc.c | 546 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ lib/librte_eal/common/eal_filesystem.h | 18 + lib/librte_eal/common/eal_private.h | 10 + lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_eal.h | 71 ++++ lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c | 23 +- lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_vfio.c | 139 ++----- lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_vfio.h | 15 +- lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_vfio_mp_sync.c | 416 +++---------------- lib/librte_eal/rte_eal_version.map | 22 + 9 files changed, 785 insertions(+), 475 deletions(-) -- 2.7.4
