[ovs-dev] [thread-safety 07/11] bond: Make the bond module thread safe.

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Thu Aug 1 18:17:26 UTC 2013


Fair enough.
Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com>


On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 06:48:42PM -0700, Ethan Jackson wrote:
> Perhaps it's premature optimization, but I think bonding is a pretty
> important use case, and I didn't want to require an exclusive lock
> when running bond_choose_output_slave().
> 
> Ethan
> 
> On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 3:50 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 06:07:08PM -0700, Ethan Jackson wrote:
> >> Signed-off-by: Ethan Jackson <ethan at nicira.com>
> >
> > Any particular reason you chose to use a read/write lock here?  I've
> > read the patch but I haven't yet audited the r/w choice in each case.



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