From: Matthew Hall <mhall@mhcomputing.net>
To: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] hash: move rte_hash structure to C file and make it internal
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2015 13:42:17 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150709204217.GA11561@mhcomputing.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150709081222.GB8408@bricha3-MOBL3>
On Thu, Jul 09, 2015 at 09:12:23AM +0100, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> Thanks for the feedback Matthew. Can you suggest a function prototype for such
> a walk operation that would make it useful for you. While we can keep the
> hash structure public, I'd prefer if we could avoid it, as it makes making changes
> hard due to ABI issues.
>
> /Bruce
Hi Bruce,
I understand about the ABI issues. Hence my suggestion of an iterator if the
structs are opaque. The names could be something like these:
rte_hash_iterate(_safe)
rte_hash_foreach(_safe)
If required due to the implementation, the safe version would be similar to
what's seen in BSD queue.h, where you can do a slower iteration that allows
removing a current entry without corrupting the table or iterator.
Then the function would look something like this:
rte_hash_iterate(rte_hash_t* h, rte_hash_callback_t callback, void* data)
rte_hash_iterate(rte_hash_t* h, rte_hash_callback_t callback, void* data)
rte_hash_iterate(rte_hash_t* h, rte_hash_callback_t callback, void* data)
rte_hash_callback_t would be a typedef of a function pointer for a callback
function, something like this on the function depending how it works inside
the hash:
int application_hash_callback(void* key, void* value, void* data)
int application_hash_callback(void* key, rte_hash_entry_t* entry, void* data)
int application_hash_callback(void* key, void* key, void* value, void* data)
The data pointer will contain the same pointer passed to the iterator. If the
iteration function returns non-zero, iteration could be discontinued, as the
client code found what it wanted already.
Threading synchronization responsibility will fall on the client as before.
The iterator should say if it's thread-safe for read-only, read-write, or
unsafe for anything, etc.
Matthew.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-07-09 20:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-08 11:27 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] Make rte_hash struct internal - Cuckoo hash part 1 Pablo de Lara
2015-07-08 11:27 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] hash: move rte_hash structure to C file and make it internal Pablo de Lara
2015-07-08 13:21 ` Bruce Richardson
2015-07-08 16:57 ` Matthew Hall
2015-07-09 8:12 ` Bruce Richardson
2015-07-09 20:42 ` Matthew Hall [this message]
2015-07-10 10:27 ` Thomas Monjalon
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