Looks good.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ilya Maximets <[email protected]>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 1:15 PM
> To: [email protected]; Ian Stokes <[email protected]>
> Cc: Flavio Leitner <[email protected]>; Ophir Munk
> <[email protected]>; Kevin Traynor <[email protected]>; Roni Bar
> Yanai <[email protected]>; Finn Christensen <[email protected]>; Asaf
> Penso <[email protected]>; Ilya Maximets <[email protected]>
> Subject: [PATCH] netdev-rte-offloads: Add thread-safety notes.
> 
> DPDK_FLOW_OFFLOAD_API is not safe in a variety of ways.
> This should be documented.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets <[email protected]>
> ---
> 
> Wording/spelling suggestions are welcome.
> 
>  lib/netdev-rte-offloads.h | 17 +++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/lib/netdev-rte-offloads.h b/lib/netdev-rte-offloads.h
> index 3f7d15f45..18c8a7558 100644
> --- a/lib/netdev-rte-offloads.h
> +++ b/lib/netdev-rte-offloads.h
> @@ -25,6 +25,23 @@ struct nlattr;
>  struct offload_info;
>  struct dpif_flow_stats;
> 
> +/* Thread-safety
> + * =============
> + *
> + * Below API is NOT thread safe in following terms:
> + *
> + *  - The caller must be sure that none of these functions will be called
> + *    simultaneously.  Even for different 'netdev's.
> + *
> + *  - The caller must be sure that 'netdev' will not be
> destructed/deallocated.
> + *
> + *  - The caller must be sure that 'netdev' configuration will not be 
> changed.
> + *    For example, simultaneous call of 'netdev_reconfigure()' for the same
> + *    'netdev' is forbidden.
> + *
> + * For current implementation all above restrictions could be fulfilled by
> + * taking the datapath 'port_mutex' in lib/dpif-netdev.c.  */
> +
>  int netdev_rte_offloads_flow_put(struct netdev *netdev, struct match
> *match,
>                                   struct nlattr *actions, size_t actions_len,
>                                   const ovs_u128 *ufid,
> --
> 2.17.1

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