[ovs-dev] [PATCH 1/7] ofproto-dpif.at: Fix some races

[Ben Pfaff]

On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 09:42:02AM +1200, Joe Stringer wrote:
> Is there any general principles behind fixing these? I'm wondering if
> there's a way I can prevent these in future.

If we come up with a general principle like that, maybe we can come up
with a systematic way to fix the races without sleeping.  For example,
adding some "ovs-appctl" call that can (somehow) wait until the
processing of previously received packets has completed.