On Nov 6, 2014, at 12:21 PM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote: > The classifier has an internal mutex, but in ofproto that mutex is > redundant with the external ofproto_mutex. If the classifier mutex were > removed, to be replaced by documentation that certain routines need > mutual exclusion, then possibly the reduced locking could yield a > performance improvement. > > However, I don't think any of the functions that take the lock are on > fast paths anyway, so this is just a thought.
How about removing the mutex and adding a wrapper layer for those users who don’t have the mutex (like guarded_list/list)? Jarno _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
