Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/3] eventdev: use c11 atomics for lcore timer armed flag
From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Date: 2020-06-23 21:20:44
On Fri, 12 Jun 2020 19:19:57 +0800 Phil Yang [off-list ref] wrote:
/* Track which cores have actually armed a timer */
struct {
- rte_atomic16_t v;
+ int16_t v;
} __rte_cache_aligned in_use[RTE_MAX_LCORE];Do you really need this to be cache aligned (ie one per line)? Why have a signed value for a reference count? Shouldn't it be unsigned?