I make simple LKM (Linux kernel module) to interact my MPI application (multi process per one compute node) at user level with kernel level information. I need to extract some data from kernel to the user level application at runtime. My MPI application uses few processes run on the same compute node simultan…
Tag: thread-safety
Is iptables thread safe?
This seems to me to be a basic question, but google and SO fail to give me an answer. As the title says, is iptables thread safe? If I have multiple processes making calls to iptables, should I create a lock for myself? There seems to be some threads from 2009 querying if netfilter is thread-safe, with no sol…