Pushed to master.

  Thanks

On Feb 12, 2014, at 9:45 AM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 08:59:18AM -0800, Jarno Rajahalme wrote:
>> 
>> On Feb 11, 2014, at 4:40 PM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 04:30:44PM -0800, Jarno Rajahalme wrote:
>>>> Reading the hmap count for determining if it is empty or not is thread
>>>> safe, so avoid locking when not necessary.
>>>> 
>>>> Signed-off-by: Jarno Rajahalme <jrajaha...@nicira.com>
>>> 
>>> It might be worth adding an atomic_thread_fence(memory_order_acquire);
>>> before the hmap_is_empty() checks, so that we can be sure to get "fresh"
>>> results in case that some other CPU has modified the hmap.  (On x86,
>>> with GCC 4.7, this generates no code.)
>> 
>> Would this be best placed in the hmap_is_empty() itself?
> 
> I think that's OK, sure.

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