> On Jul 29, 2016, at 12:48 PM, Ben Pfaff <b...@ovn.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 11:46:49AM -0700, Jarno Rajahalme wrote:
>>
>>> On Jul 29, 2016, at 11:20 AM, Ben Pfaff <b...@ovn.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 05:55:54PM -0700, Jarno Rajahalme wrote:
>>>> Make groups RCU protected and make group lookups lockless.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Jarno Rajahalme <ja...@ovn.org>
>>>
>>> I'd add a little motivation to the commit message. A common reason to
>>> switch to RCU is performance, but I doubt that this is the motivation
>>> here. Rather, I suspect that it has more to do with having groups and
>>> flows share the same synchronization mechanism so that it's easier to
>>> understand. Also, I guess that later in the series you're going to need
>>> versioning so that groups can be included in bundles.
>>>
>>
>> Good point, you are right and I'll address this.
>>
>>> I wasn't sure what to make of this new comment in ofproto-provider.h:
>>>
>>
>> I was wondering if I should have changed 'buckets' to const as
>> well. Everything else is const, which makes it easy to change to RCU
>> semantics. I suspect that making it 'const' will require quite a lot
>> of CONST_CAST'ing when creating the group, but I'll see.
>
> OK. It's a good idea if it doesn't make the code too ugly.
>
It was quickly done, and all the casts were for either creating a new group or
destroying an old one.
Jarno
>>> @@ -515,20 +515,22 @@ struct ofgroup {
>>> const enum ofp11_group_type type; /* One of OFPGT_*. */
>>>
>>> const long long int created; /* Creation time. */
>>> const long long int modified; /* Time of last modification. */
>>>
>>> + /* const ?? */
>>> struct ovs_list buckets; /* Contains "struct ofputil_bucket"s. */
>>> const uint32_t n_buckets;
>>>
>>> const struct ofputil_group_props props;
>>> };
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