RCU support for consumer's hash tables

[lttng-tools.git] / include / lttng / lttng-consumer.h

diff --git a/include/lttng/lttng-consumer.h b/include/lttng/lttng-consumer.h
index bba72ee69ec39f82a4b56cf69c65e84c7939b4ab..f5ad3e6f2ad416d5e3d6064444d1064ff1caa519 100644 (file)
--- a/include/lttng/lttng-consumer.h
+++ b/include/lttng/lttng-consumer.h
@@ -184,9 +184,10 @@ struct lttng_consumer_global_data {
        /*
         * At this time, this lock is used to ensure coherence between the count
         * and number of element in the hash table. It's also a protection for
        /*
         * At this time, this lock is used to ensure coherence between the count
         * and number of element in the hash table. It's also a protection for

-        * concurrent read/write between threads. Although hash table used are
-        * lockless data structure, appropriate RCU lock mechanism are not yet
-        * implemented in the consumer.
+        * concurrent read/write between threads.
+        *
+        * XXX: We need to see if this lock is still needed with the lockless RCU
+        * hash tables.

         */
        pthread_mutex_t lock;
 
         */
        pthread_mutex_t lock;