I wanted to make a change to ARPTable which would give it the ability to invoke
a hook back to ARPQuerier when it deletes queued up packages, but wasn't sure
if there's a clean way to do this.
In C, I'd just set a pointer to a callback function, but this isn't C.
So what's the best way to do it? Keep in mind that the ARPTable might have been
Also, it's the case that the same ARPTable instance might be shared amongst
several ARPQuerier instances (because we're in a multi-core environment with
several threads running on the same NIC).
Oh, one other question about ARPTable vs. ARPQuerier interactions... if I have
that same situation where I'm running multithreaded, and a response packet gets
delivered to one ARPQuerier, thereby updating the ARPTable... will the queued
up packets in each instance of the ARPQueriers get updated and unblock the
packets?
Or are the queued packets actually held by the ARPTable (and therefore in a
single place)?
Looking at how ARPQuerier::handle_ip() and ARPQuerier::handle_response()
interact, it looks like the packets are all held by the ARPTable, and when the
queue gets drained, all drained by the same instance... so any affinity of
individual packets to threads is lost.
Packet *cached_packet;
arpt->insert(ipa, ena,&cached_packet);
while (cached_packet) {
Packet *next = cached_packet->next();
handle_ip(cached_packet, true);
cached_packet = next;
}
Correct?
Thanks.
-Philip
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