Fragment questions

[Adrian Chadd]

On 20 March 2015 at 10:58, Hans Petter Selasky <hps at selasky.org> wrote:
> On 03/20/15 14:31, Emeric POUPON wrote:
>>
>> - in the ip_newid macro, we do "htons(V_ip_id++))" if we do not use
>> randomized id.
>
>> In multi core systems, we may emit successive packets with the same id.
>
> Will using a mutex or an atomic macro fix this issue when incrementing the
> V_ip_id ?

It will, but it'll ping-pong between multiple cores and slow things
down at high pps.


-a