hash: add more accurate thread-safety comments

Describing the thread-safety support more accurately for
API documentation.

Fixes: f2e3001b53ec ("hash: support read/write concurrency")

Signed-off-by: Yipeng Wang <yipeng1.wang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Pablo de Lara <pablo.de.lara.guarch@intel.com>

diff --git a/lib/librte_hash/rte_hash.h b/lib/librte_hash/rte_hash.h
index f2e50ab..9e7d931 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/librte_hash/rte_hash.h
+++ b/lib/librte_hash/rte_hash.h
@@ -140,7 +140,9 @@ rte_hash_count(const struct rte_hash *h);
 /**
  * Add a key-value pair to an existing hash table.
  * This operation is not multi-thread safe
- * and should only be called from one thread.
+ * and should only be called from one thread by default.
+ * Thread safety can be enabled by setting flag during
+ * table creation.
  *
  * @param h
  *   Hash table to add the key to.
@@ -160,7 +162,9 @@ rte_hash_add_key_data(const struct rte_hash *h, const void *key, void *data);
  * Add a key-value pair with a pre-computed hash value
  * to an existing hash table.
  * This operation is not multi-thread safe
- * and should only be called from one thread.
+ * and should only be called from one thread by default.
+ * Thread safety can be enabled by setting flag during
+ * table creation.
  *
  * @param h
  *   Hash table to add the key to.
@@ -181,7 +185,9 @@ rte_hash_add_key_with_hash_data(const struct rte_hash *h, const void *key,
 
 /**
  * Add a key to an existing hash table. This operation is not multi-thread safe
- * and should only be called from one thread.
+ * and should only be called from one thread by default.
+ * Thread safety can be enabled by setting flag during
+ * table creation.
  *
  * @param h
  *   Hash table to add the key to.
@@ -199,7 +205,9 @@ rte_hash_add_key(const struct rte_hash *h, const void *key);
 /**
  * Add a key to an existing hash table.
  * This operation is not multi-thread safe
- * and should only be called from one thread.
+ * and should only be called from one thread by default.
+ * Thread safety can be enabled by setting flag during
+ * table creation.
  *
  * @param h
  *   Hash table to add the key to.
@@ -219,7 +227,9 @@ rte_hash_add_key_with_hash(const struct rte_hash *h, const void *key, hash_sig_t
 /**
  * Remove a key from an existing hash table.
  * This operation is not multi-thread safe
- * and should only be called from one thread.
+ * and should only be called from one thread by default.
+ * Thread safety can be enabled by setting flag during
+ * table creation.
  *
  * @param h
  *   Hash table to remove the key from.
@@ -238,7 +248,9 @@ rte_hash_del_key(const struct rte_hash *h, const void *key);
 /**
  * Remove a key from an existing hash table.
  * This operation is not multi-thread safe
- * and should only be called from one thread.
+ * and should only be called from one thread by default.
+ * Thread safety can be enabled by setting flag during
+ * table creation.
  *
  * @param h
  *   Hash table to remove the key from.
@@ -258,7 +270,9 @@ rte_hash_del_key_with_hash(const struct rte_hash *h, const void *key, hash_sig_t
 
 /**
  * Find a key in the hash table given the position.
- * This operation is multi-thread safe.
+ * This operation is multi-thread safe with regarding to other lookup threads.
+ * Read-write concurrency can be enabled by setting flag during
+ * table creation.
  *
  * @param h
  *   Hash table to get the key from.
@@ -277,7 +291,9 @@ rte_hash_get_key_with_position(const struct rte_hash *h, const int32_t position,
 
 /**
  * Find a key-value pair in the hash table.
- * This operation is multi-thread safe.
+ * This operation is multi-thread safe with regarding to other lookup threads.
+ * Read-write concurrency can be enabled by setting flag during
+ * table creation.
  *
  * @param h
  *   Hash table to look in.
@@ -298,7 +314,9 @@ rte_hash_lookup_data(const struct rte_hash *h, const void *key, void **data);
 /**
  * Find a key-value pair with a pre-computed hash value
  * to an existing hash table.
- * This operation is multi-thread safe.
+ * This operation is multi-thread safe with regarding to other lookup threads.
+ * Read-write concurrency can be enabled by setting flag during
+ * table creation.
  *
  * @param h
  *   Hash table to look in.
@@ -321,7 +339,9 @@ rte_hash_lookup_with_hash_data(const struct rte_hash *h, const void *key,
 
 /**
  * Find a key in the hash table.
- * This operation is multi-thread safe.
+ * This operation is multi-thread safe with regarding to other lookup threads.
+ * Read-write concurrency can be enabled by setting flag during
+ * table creation.
  *
  * @param h
  *   Hash table to look in.
@@ -339,7 +359,9 @@ rte_hash_lookup(const struct rte_hash *h, const void *key);
 
 /**
  * Find a key in the hash table.
- * This operation is multi-thread safe.
+ * This operation is multi-thread safe with regarding to other lookup threads.
+ * Read-write concurrency can be enabled by setting flag during
+ * table creation.
  *
  * @param h
  *   Hash table to look in.
@@ -374,7 +396,9 @@ rte_hash_hash(const struct rte_hash *h, const void *key);
 
 /**
  * Find multiple keys in the hash table.
- * This operation is multi-thread safe.
+ * This operation is multi-thread safe with regarding to other lookup threads.
+ * Read-write concurrency can be enabled by setting flag during
+ * table creation.
  *
  * @param h
  *   Hash table to look in.
@@ -395,7 +419,9 @@ rte_hash_lookup_bulk_data(const struct rte_hash *h, const void **keys,
 
 /**
  * Find multiple keys in the hash table.
- * This operation is multi-thread safe.
+ * This operation is multi-thread safe with regarding to other lookup threads.
+ * Read-write concurrency can be enabled by setting flag during
+ * table creation.
  *
  * @param h
  *   Hash table to look in.