[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/3] New Thread Safe Hash Library

[Thomas Monjalon]

2014-09-18 15:31, De Lara Guarch, Pablo:
> From: Neil Horman [mailto:nhorman at tuxdriver.com]

> > Thread safe hash tables seem to me like a configuration option rather than
> > a new
> > library.  Instead of creating a whole new library (with a new API and ABI
> > to maintain, why not just add thread safety as a configurable option to
> > the existing hash library.  That saves code space in the DPDK, and
> > reduces application complexity (as the same api is useable for thread
> > safe and unsafe hash tables)
> 
> Makes sense, but implementation has changed so much to add it directly into
> the existing library. At first, this was designed to be a replacement of
> the existing library, but since API is a bit different from the old one, it
> was thought to leave it as an alternative, so users are not forced to have
> to change their applications if they don't want to use thread safe hash
> tables.

It makes me smile :)
You basically explain that it's more complicated to properly merge two
different implementations than just throwing a new one in the big DPDK bucket.
My opinion is that it should not be integrated as is because we must try to
make DPDK something else than a trash bucket.

Thanks for continuing your effort to make DPDK easier and better.
-- 
Thomas