[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v9 1/8] ethdev: use locks to protect Rx/Tx callback lists

Thomas Monjalon thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com
Tue Jun 14 21:59:55 CEST 2016


2016-06-14 10:38, Reshma Pattan:
> Added spinlocks around add/remove logic of Rx and Tx callbacks
> to avoid corruption of callback lists in multithreaded context.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Reshma Pattan <reshma.pattan at intel.com>

Why cb->next is not locked in burst functions?
Just protecting add/remove but not its usage seems useless.


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