Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v9 2/2] eal: add generic thread-local-storage
functions

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Hi Tal,

On 10/02/2021 13:33, Burakov, Anatoly wrote:

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On 06-Jan-21 8:35 PM, Tal Shnaiderman wrote:

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Add support for TLS functionality in EAL.

The following functions are added:
rte_thread_tls_key_create - create a TLS data key.
rte_thread_tls_key_delete - delete a TLS data key.
rte_thread_tls_value_set - set value bound to the TLS key
rte_thread_tls_value_get - get value bound to the TLS key

TLS key is defined by the new type rte_tls_key.

I would suggest changing rte_tls_key to rte_thread_tls_key so that it is
consistent with the API and not confused with transport layer security.

Thanks Vladimir, will modify for 21.05.

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The API allocates the thread local storage (TLS) key.
Any thread of the process can subsequently use this key to store and
retrieve values that are local to the thread.

Those functions are added in addition to TLS capability in
rte_per_lcore.h to allow abstraction of the pthread layer for all
operating systems.

Windows implementation is under librte_eal/windows and implemented
using WIN32 API for Windows only.

Unix implementation is under librte_eal/unix and implemented using
pthread for UNIX compilation.

Signed-off-by: Tal Shnaiderman <redacted>
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Regards,
Vladimir