[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/2] ethdev: make flow API primary/secondary process safe

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Tue, 16 Mar 2021 23:48:57 +0000
Suanming Mou <suanmingm at nvidia.com> wrote:

> Hi Stephen,
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2021 3:27 AM
> > To: dev at dpdk.org
> > Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>; Suanming Mou
> > <suanmingm at nvidia.com>
> > Subject: [PATCH 1/2] ethdev: make flow API primary/secondary process safe
> > 
> > Posix mutex are not by default safe for protecting for usage from multiple
> > processes. The flow ops mutex could be used by both primary and secondary
> > processes.  
> 
> Process safe is something more widely scope. I assume it should be another feature but not a bugfix for thread-safe?
> And the fag RTE_ETH_DEV_FLOW_OPS_THREAD_SAFE we have added is just thread safe.
> 

OK, that makes sense. Is this in the documentation?