Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH] datapath: Use parallel_ops genl.

2013-08-12 Thread Pravin Shelar
On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 7:44 PM, Jesse Gross wrote: > On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Pravin B Shelar wrote: >> OVS locking was recently changed to have private OVS lock which >> simplified overall locking. Therefore there is no need to have >> another global genl lock to protect OVS data structu

Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH] datapath: Use parallel_ops genl.

2013-08-06 Thread Jesse Gross
On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Pravin B Shelar wrote: > OVS locking was recently changed to have private OVS lock which > simplified overall locking. Therefore there is no need to have > another global genl lock to protect OVS data structures. Following > patch uses of parallel_ops genl family

[ovs-dev] [PATCH] datapath: Use parallel_ops genl.

2013-08-01 Thread Pravin B Shelar
OVS locking was recently changed to have private OVS lock which simplified overall locking. Therefore there is no need to have another global genl lock to protect OVS data structures. Following patch uses of parallel_ops genl family for OVS. This also allows more granual OVS locking using ovs_mu