doc: add flow API to features list

[dpdk.git] / doc / guides / prog_guide / hash_lib.rst

diff --git a/doc/guides/prog_guide/hash_lib.rst b/doc/guides/prog_guide/hash_lib.rst
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+++ b/doc/guides/prog_guide/hash_lib.rst
@@ -87,6 +87,14 @@ or stored in the hash table itself.
 The example hash tables in the L2/L3 Forwarding sample applications defines which port to forward a packet to based on a packet flow identified by the five-tuple lookup.
 However, this table could also be used for more sophisticated features and provide many other functions and actions that could be performed on the packets and flows.
 
 The example hash tables in the L2/L3 Forwarding sample applications defines which port to forward a packet to based on a packet flow identified by the five-tuple lookup.
 However, this table could also be used for more sophisticated features and provide many other functions and actions that could be performed on the packets and flows.
 

+Multi-process support
+---------------------
+
+The hash library can be used in a multi-process environment, minding that only lookups are thread-safe.
+The only function that can only be used in single-process mode is rte_hash_set_cmp_func(), which sets up
+a custom compare function, which is assigned to a function pointer (therefore, it is not supported in
+multi-process mode).
+

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 Implementation Details
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