On Jun 2, 2014, at 12:51 PM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 12:50:45PM -0700, Jarno Rajahalme wrote: >> >> On Jun 2, 2014, at 11:45 AM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote: >> >>> I'd really hope that any serious OVS implementation would be able to >>> use C11 or GCC or Clang or other compiler-specific techniques to get a >>> "real" implementation of atomics. Really the pthreads version is just >>> to make porting easier. >> >> Are we already documenting this somewhere? > > I don't think so. It wasn't the attitude I started out with; > originally I hoped that the pthreads implementation would be viable > for real use, but I'm really not sure about that any longer.
I just ran “time ./ovstest test-cmap check 1”, with ovs-atomics-pthreads it takes 16 times longer than on master. So it is likely unusable in practice, so this would be the time to document it, I guess. Jarno _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
