[ovs-dev] [PATCH] ovsdb-idl: Mark row "parsed" in ovsdb_idl_txn_write__

[Ben Pfaff]

I guess I missed it.  Will you please point it out to me, for example in
the list archive?

On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 06:58:34PM +0200, Damijan Skvarc wrote:
> Hmm, the problem of "parsed" flag is that it identifies "all" columns of
> certain row have been parsed, however there are CLI tools which modify only
> individual colums by calling ovsdb_idl_txn_write_() function. In this case
> and in case parsed flag would be set in ovsdb_idl_txn_write() function then
> unparsing procedure would be called also for columns which were not parsed.
> The problem could be overcome by having individual flag for each column.
> This has been addresed in pending pull request. Apparent mail has been sent
> to dev list, but obviosly has been somehow overlooked.
> br, damijan
> 
> On Thu, 18 Jul 2019, 17:52 Ben Pfaff, <blp at ovn.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 09:05:04PM +0200, Dumitru Ceara wrote:
> > > Once a column is set in a row using ovsdb_idl_txn_write__ we also mark
> > > the row "parsed". Otherwise the memory allocated by
> > > sbrec_<table>_parse_<col>() will never be freed. After marking the row
> > > "parsed", the ovsdb_idl_txn_disassemble function will properly free the
> > > newly allocated memory for the column (ovsdb_idl_row_unparse).
> >
> > Wow, good catch.  I bet that's been there forever.
> >
> > The OVSDB IDL code is too complicated.  It's too hard to spot the
> > issues.  I wish I saw a way to make it simpler.
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