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    "date": "2023-08-15T01:38:19",
    "name": "[v1,0/7] support reinit flow",
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        "From": "okaya@kernel.org",
        "To": "",
        "Cc": "dev@dpdk.org,\n\tSinan Kaya <okaya@kernel.org>",
        "Subject": "[PATCH v1 0/7] support reinit flow",
        "Date": "Mon, 14 Aug 2023 21:38:19 -0400",
        "Message-Id": "<20230815013826.1288972-1-okaya@kernel.org>",
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    "content": "From: Sinan Kaya <okaya@kernel.org>\n\nWe want to be able to call rte_eal_init() and rte_eal_cleanup()\nAPIs back to back for maintanance reasons.\n\nHere is a summary of the code we have seen so far:\n\n1. some code support getting called multiple times by keeping\na static variable.\n2. some code initializes once but never clean up after them and\ndon't have a cleanup API.\n3. some code assumes that they only get called once during the\nlifecycle of the process.\n\nMost changes in this patch center around following the #1 design\nprinciple.\n\nGraham Whyte (1):\n  eal: fixes for re-initialization issues\n\nSinan Kaya (6):\n  tailq: skip init if already initialized\n  eal_memzone: bail out on initialized\n  memseg: init once\n  eal_memory: skip initialization\n  eal_interrupts: don't reinitialize threads\n  eal: initialize worker threads once\n\n lib/eal/common/eal_common_memory.c  |  5 ++\n lib/eal/common/eal_common_memzone.c |  6 +++\n lib/eal/common/eal_common_options.c |  7 +++\n lib/eal/common/eal_common_tailqs.c  | 21 ++++++---\n lib/eal/common/malloc_heap.c        |  6 +++\n lib/eal/linux/eal.c                 | 72 ++++++++++++++++-------------\n lib/eal/linux/eal_interrupts.c      |  5 ++\n lib/eal/linux/eal_memory.c          | 11 ++++-\n 8 files changed, 92 insertions(+), 41 deletions(-)"
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