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    "date": "2021-07-13T07:46:20",
    "name": "[v4,0/3] provide thread unsafe async registration functions",
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        "From": "Jiayu Hu <jiayu.hu@intel.com>",
        "To": "dev@dpdk.org",
        "Cc": "maxime.coquelin@redhat.com, chenbo.xia@intel.com,\n Jiayu Hu <jiayu.hu@intel.com>",
        "Date": "Tue, 13 Jul 2021 03:46:20 -0400",
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        "Subject": "[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 0/3] provide thread unsafe async registration\n functions",
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    "content": "Lock protection is needed during the vhost notifies the application of\ndevice readiness, so the first patch adds lock protection. In addition,\nthe second patch reworks async feature structure to improve readability.\nAfter performing locking, existed async vhost registration functions will\ncause deadlock, as they acquire lock too. The last patch provides thread\nunsafe registration functions to support calling within vhost callback\nfunctions.\n\nv4:\n* remove brace {} in single statement block\nv3:\n* rename and use enum to define async device features\n* change padding fields to 8 bytes\nv2:\n* rework async feature structure\n* fix typo in commit log\n\nJiayu Hu (3):\n  vhost: fix lock on device readiness notification\n  vhost: rework async configuration struct\n  vhost: add thread unsafe async registeration functions\n\n doc/guides/prog_guide/vhost_lib.rst |  31 +++++--\n examples/vhost/main.c               |   8 +-\n lib/vhost/rte_vhost_async.h         |  74 ++++++++++++-----\n lib/vhost/version.map               |   4 +\n lib/vhost/vhost.c                   | 157 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------\n lib/vhost/vhost_user.c              |   5 +-\n 6 files changed, 205 insertions(+), 74 deletions(-)"
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