Re: [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-stable] [PATCH] vdpa/mlx5: fix configuration mutex cleanup

Hi Maxime and David

Thank you for Review.

From: David Marchand

On Fri, Jan 8, 2021 at 9:48 AM David Marchand
[off-list ref] wrote:

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I wonder if it would be possible and cleaner to disable cancellation
on the thread while the mutex is held?

Yes, we can cause thread to return by some global variable sync.
It is the same logic.

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+1

IEEE Std 1003.1-2001/Cor 2-2004, item XBD/TC2/D6/26 is applied, adding
pthread_t to the list of types that are not required to be arithmetic types, thus
allowing pthread_t to be defined as a structure.

It would be better to leave pthread_t alone and not interpret it:

if (priv->timer_tid) {
    pthread_cancel(priv->timer_tid);
    pthread_join(priv->timer_tid, &status); }
priv->timer_tid = 0;

I'm not sure why you think it is better in this specific case.
The cancellation will close the thread in faster way, no need to wait for the thread to close itself.

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David Marchand