From: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
To: "Mattias Rönnblom" <mattias.ronnblom@ericsson.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, hofors@lysator.liu.se,
"Stephen Hemminger" <stephen@networkplumber.org>,
"Morten Brørup" <mb@smartsharesystems.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] random: clarify PRNG MT safety guarantees
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2023 11:13:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJFAV8zaahzFjB+u1TkKQPadJLRMnyVQ_cF0w09-RKbaCrxZnQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20231004105449.367667-1-mattias.ronnblom@ericsson.com>
On Wed, Oct 4, 2023 at 1:00 PM Mattias Rönnblom
<mattias.ronnblom@ericsson.com> wrote:
>
> Clarify MT safety guarantees for unregistered non-EAL threads calling
> PRNG functions in rte_random.h.
>
> Clarify that rte_srand() is not MT safe in regards to calls to
> rte_rand_max() and rte_drand().
>
> Suggested-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
> Signed-off-by: Mattias Rönnblom <mattias.ronnblom@ericsson.com>
Should it be backported along 3a4e21301c7a ("random: initialize state
for unregistered non-EAL threads") ?
--
David Marchand
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-10-06 9:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-10-04 10:54 Mattias Rönnblom
2023-10-04 12:05 ` Morten Brørup
2023-10-10 9:40 ` David Marchand
2023-10-06 9:13 ` David Marchand [this message]
2023-10-06 12:18 ` Mattias Rönnblom
2023-10-06 15:58 ` Stephen Hemminger
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