On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 02:37:48PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 02:32:08PM -0700, Ethan Jackson wrote:
> > > Simon presented numbers that showed it to be a valuable optimization
> > > in some cases, otherwise I'd just say get rid of it.
> > 
> > If that's the only reason we have it, I vote we ditch it.  It's a new
> > world with multithreading, I'd like to have a clean slate in the
> > direction of thread safety and add optimizations back if they help in
> > this new paradigm
> 
> That's the only reason we have it.  If you want to ditch it be my
> guest.

What about the "cookies" hindex in struct ofproto, does it need
locking or removal?
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