On Tue, Oct 04, 2016 at 04:25:35PM -0700, Daniele Di Proietto wrote: > dp_netdev_get_pmd() is allowed to return NULL (even if we call it with > NON_PMD_CORE_ID) for different reasons: > > * Since we use RCU to protect pmd threads, it is possible that > ovs_refcount_try_ref_rcu() has failed. > * During reconfiguration we destroy every thread.
I'd recommend making the comment on dp_netdev_get_pmd() clearer, by mentioning that it can always return NULL, even with NON_PMD_CORE_ID as an argument. Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <b...@ovn.org> _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev