On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 05:41:59PM +1200, Joe Stringer wrote:
> Currently, ukeys are protected during revalidator_sweep__() as only one
> thread accesses the ukey at a time. This is ensured using barriers:
> all revalidators will be in the GC phase, so they will only access their
> own ukey collection.
> 
> A future patch will change the access patterns to allow these ukey
> collections to be read or modified while a revalidator is garbage
> collecting it. To protect the ukeys, this patch adds locking on the ukey
> collection.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Joe Stringer <joestrin...@nicira.com>

Do we actually explain anywhere that "ukey" means "udpif_key"?

Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com>
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