On Thu, Oct 09, 2014 at 04:21:51PM -0700, Jarno Rajahalme wrote: > classifier already provides lockless lookups, and protected > modifications. When user wants to remove a flow, we currently require > the flow to exist in the classifier. To be thread safe, this requires > the caller to introduce their own mutex, lock it before a lookup, and > then issue classifier_remove() while the lock is still held. > > This patch relaxes the "existence requirement" of the rule in > classifier_remove(), allowing it to be called on a rule that may have > already been removed from the classifier. This allows users to do a > classifier_lookup() and classifier_remove() without additional > syncronization. > > Signed-off-by: Jarno Rajahalme <jrajaha...@nicira.com>
Are you intending to use this property in dpif-netdev then? Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
