On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 11:23:58AM -0700, Han Zhou wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 2:59 PM, Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > We're working to make ovn-controller compute more incrementally, to reduce
> > CPU usage.  To make it easier to keep track of dependencies, it makes
> sense
> > to pass around pointers to fine-grained resources instead of an entire
> > database at a time.  This commit introduces a way to pass individual
> tables
> > around and starts using that feature in ovn-controller.
> >
> > CC: Han Zhou <[email protected]>
> > Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <[email protected]>
> > ---
> 
> In this patch although tables are passed individually, the ctx parameter is
> still kept for most functions. With ctx, it is still easy for the function
> to access any tables than the individual tables passed.
> I see two reasons why ctx is still kept in this patch:
> 1) index implementation requires passing the IDL, and I saw this is
> addressed in next patches by redesigning the index mechanism
> 2) OVSDB transaction requires passing the ..._idl_txn in the ctx. I think
> we can pass in ..._idl_txn directly instead of the ctx. This would avoid
> the misuse of tables.
> 
> What do you think about point 2)?

Eliminating ctx is a goal but this series doesn't accomplish it yet.  I
hope to do that in a followup.  Passing in idl_txn is an easy way to do
it; I was hoping to somehow distinguish read-only tables from read/write
ones (maybe via const?) but I haven't gotten that far.
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