On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 11:03:42AM +0000, Ananyev, Konstantin wrote: > > > > > > A gentle reminder, > > > > I am curious to know if/how rte_hash is thread safe for lookups.It is not > > obvious to me how following code is thread safe: > > I don't think it is really thread-safe: you can't do lookup and add/delete > simultaneously from different threads. > Some extra synchronization would be needed. > Konstantin > This notice may be a left-over from older versions. I believe in the past, the hash library used to be safe to have add/delete and lookup in parallel, but it certainly appears to be no longer the case.
/Bruce