From 150d261d1562c07fa69cd081947e7cbebbe382cd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Will S <willstott101@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2022 12:47:29 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Release GIL when creating topics

---
 clayer/pysertype.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/clayer/pysertype.c b/clayer/pysertype.c
index 20bbe855..6d04560f 100644
--- a/clayer/pysertype.c
+++ b/clayer/pysertype.c
@@ -975,7 +975,9 @@ ddspy_topic_create(PyObject *self, PyObject *args)
 
     if (sertype == NULL) return NULL;
 
+    Py_BEGIN_ALLOW_THREADS
     sts = dds_create_topic_sertype(participant, name, (struct ddsi_sertype **) &sertype, qos, listener, NULL);
+    Py_END_ALLOW_THREADS
 
     if (PyErr_Occurred() || sts < 0) {
         ddsi_sertype_unref((struct ddsi_sertype *) sertype);