ring: clarify preemptible nature of algorithm
authorHonnappa Nagarahalli <honnappa.nagarahalli@arm.com>
Tue, 17 Jul 2018 04:52:44 +0000 (23:52 -0500)
committerThomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Sun, 5 Aug 2018 18:06:10 +0000 (20:06 +0200)
commit4a6e683c4c69904214cce6de97b32d209ef95711
treeb7a7a9ef60c22f86341af03943f628e30fcef32d
parentb2a4654f082b094441125c2dd55c8b80e2aa2c0a
ring: clarify preemptible nature of algorithm

rte_ring implementation is not preemptible only under certain
circumstances. This clarification is helpful for data plane and
control plane communication using rte_ring.

Signed-off-by: Honnappa Nagarahalli <honnappa.nagarahalli@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Gavin Hu <gavin.hu@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Ola Liljedahl <ola.liljedahl@arm.com>
Acked-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
doc/guides/prog_guide/env_abstraction_layer.rst
lib/librte_ring/rte_ring.h