On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 07:38:49PM +0000, Saha, Avik (AWS) wrote: > Hey guys > Is it safe to add an entry to the rte_table_hash while the pipeline is > being run - for instance if I were to try and add an entry on a port reader > action when the packet enters the pipeline? > > Thanks > Avik >
No, none of the table implementations are currently thread safe. They all assume that you will do your own locking between threads and processes. There were a few patches to support thread safety recently, but they are being reworked currently. Neil