Hey Ben, I think this one is up-to-date. I'm reviewing it.
Your comments make sense. I think Ryan will adjust it. Also, I'd also like you or Ethan to review it. Thanks, Alex Wang, On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 8:29 AM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote: > Is this still up-to-date? I know that we've had a lot of discussion and > a couple of patch versions related to netdevs this week. > > More below. > > On Tue, May 06, 2014 at 09:54:12AM -0700, Ryan Wilson wrote: > > Before, a global read-write lock protected the ofproto-dpif / > ofproto-dpif-xlate > > interface. Handler and revalidator threads had to wait while > configuration was > > being changed. This patch implements RCU locking which allows handlers > and > > revalidators to operate while configuration is being updated. > > > > This patch also frees netdev with ovsrcu_postpone. This is because if RCU > > reader threads take a ref to the netdev, the netdev cannot be deleted and > > re-created with different types. > > I have to say that I don't understand the previous paragraph of the > commit message. Maybe you could spell it out more precisely? Also, the > netdev portion of the commit seems to have little to do with the rest, > so I'd be inclined to make it a separate preparatory commit. > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > dev@openvswitch.org > http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev >
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