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From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
To: "Ananyev, Konstantin" <konstantin.ananyev@intel.com>
Cc: Honnappa Nagarahalli <Honnappa.Nagarahalli@arm.com>,
	Brijesh Singh <brijesh.s.singh@gmail.com>,
	"dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>, nd <nd@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] rte_hash thread safe
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2018 12:07:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180424110708.GB124204@bricha3-MOBL.ger.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2601191342CEEE43887BDE71AB977258AEA5206E@IRSMSX102.ger.corp.intel.com>

On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 11:03:42AM +0000, Ananyev, Konstantin wrote:
> 
> 
> > 
> > A gentle reminder,
> > 
> > I am curious to know if/how rte_hash is thread safe for lookups.It is not obvious to me how following code is thread safe:
> 
> I don't think it is really thread-safe: you can't do lookup and add/delete simultaneously from different threads.
> Some extra synchronization would be needed.
> Konstantin
> 
This notice may be a left-over from older versions. I believe in the past,
the hash library used to be safe to have add/delete and lookup in parallel,
but it certainly appears to be no longer the case.

/Bruce

  reply	other threads:[~2018-04-24 11:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-04-12  4:12 Brijesh Singh
2018-04-23 19:40 ` Brijesh Singh
2018-04-23 23:50   ` Stephen Hemminger
2018-04-24  0:21     ` Jim Murphy
2018-04-24  0:30       ` Stephen Hemminger
2018-04-24  0:48         ` Jim Murphy
2018-04-24  1:14           ` Stephen Hemminger
2018-04-24  2:13             ` Jim Murphy
2018-04-24  6:36               ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
2018-04-24 15:04             ` Brijesh Singh
2018-04-25  6:45               ` Shyam Shrivastav
2018-04-24  3:48           ` Jerin Jacob
2018-04-24  5:02             ` Stephen Hemminger
2018-04-24  6:12   ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
2018-04-24 11:03     ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2018-04-24 11:07       ` Bruce Richardson [this message]
2018-05-24 17:35 ` Wang, Yipeng1

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