[ovs-dev] [PATCH v2 2/3] lib/ovs-thread: Use atomic_count.

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Fri Aug 29 21:38:58 UTC 2014


On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 02:10:43PM -0700, Jarno Rajahalme wrote:
> barrier->count is used as a simple counter and is not expected the
> synchronize the state of any other variable, so we can use atomic_count,
> which uses relaxed atomics.
> 
> Ditto for the 'next_id' within ovsthread_wrapper().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jarno Rajahalme <jrajahalme at nicira.com>
> ---
> v2: Do not seq_read again after seq_change, as we know the value changed.

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



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