On Fri, Aug 09, 2013 at 02:05:59PM -0700, Ethan Jackson wrote: > This patch uses a read-write lock to prevent rules from being evicted > while they're used by child threads. It also changes the prototypes > of the various rule lookup functions so that the thread safety > analysis can be used to ensure that the locking is handled properly. > > Signed-off-by: Ethan Jackson <[email protected]>
I'm a little worried about deadlocks. There are lots of corner cases here (eviction, in-band control, fail-open) and I'm concerned that we don't hit those much in testing. Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
