On 16 January 2014 10:07, Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote: > > + * An ovs_rwlock does not support recursive readers, because POSIX allows > + * taking the reader lock recursively to deadlock when a thread is > waiting on > + * the write-lock. (NetBSD does deadlock.) glibc does not deadlock in > this > + * situation by default, but ovs_rwlock_init() initializes rwlocks to do > so > + * anyway for two reasons:
The last sentence seems a bit odd. Perhaps something closer to "glibc does not deadlock in this situation by default, but ovs_rwlock_init() initializes rwlocks as non-recursive anyway for two reasons:"? Otherwise, Acked-by: Joe Stringer <[email protected]>
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