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| author |   Neale Ranns <nranns@cisco.com> | 2020-11-09 10:09:42 +0000 |
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| committer |   Florin Coras <florin.coras@gmail.com> | 2021-01-14 19:55:55 +0000 |
| commit | dfd3954c0427422e2739b858d1e18503a5c59970 (patch) | |
| tree | 13225967f028f7d386b8da863656b5e576c0b463 /docs/gettingstarted/developers/fib20/graphs.rst | |
| parent | 1b5ca985dc51bea730ce5ee799641c75f73a0f26 (diff) | |
docs: Update FIB documentation
Type: docs
Signed-off-by: Neale Ranns <nranns@cisco.com>
Change-Id: I3dfde4520a48c945ca9707accabbe1735c1a8799
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/gettingstarted/developers/fib20/graphs.rst')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/gettingstarted/developers/fib20/graphs.rst | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/docs/gettingstarted/developers/fib20/graphs.rst b/docs/gettingstarted/developers/fib20/graphs.rst index ec4c6760062..aec0e4b0135 100644 --- a/docs/gettingstarted/developers/fib20/graphs.rst +++ b/docs/gettingstarted/developers/fib20/graphs.rst @@ -26,9 +26,9 @@ The many to one relationship between child and parent means that the lifetime of parent object must extend to the lifetime of its children. If the control plane removes a parent object before its children, then the parent must remain, in an **incomplete** state, until the children are themselves removed. Likewise if a child -is created before its parent, the parent is completed in an *incomplete* state. These +is created before its parent, the parent is created in an *incomplete* state. These incomplete objects are needed to maintain the graph dependencies. Without them when -the parent is added finding the affected children would be search through many +the parent is added finding the affected children would require a search through many databases for those children. To extend the lifetime of parents all children thereof hold a **lock** on the parent. This is a simple reference count. Children then follow the add-or-lock/unlock semantics for finding a parent, as opposed to a malloc/free. |