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Subject: Re: Appropriate DPDK data structures for TCP sockets
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2015 16:02:04 -0800
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On Sat, 21 Feb 2015 16:38:45 -0800
Matthew Hall <mhall-Hv3ogNYU3JfZZajBQzqCxQ@public.gmane.org> wrote:

> So far I was using rte_hash, but it's single writer multi reader, which is eventually going to need some more complicated locking and probably run kind of slow. Also, I need some timer functions to delete dead sockets and so forth, and rte_hash doesn't have any iteration API.

Use userspace RCU? or BSD RB_TREE

The existing rte_hash is too limited for many use cases.