rculfhash: Relax atomicity guarantees required by removal operation

[urcu.git] / urcu / rculfhash.h

diff --git a/urcu/rculfhash.h b/urcu/rculfhash.h
index de315265d38efd597e26a0c4d3938474196005df..647592b9cf05654598dc76f1867a0455fb1eaac6 100644 (file)
--- a/urcu/rculfhash.h
+++ b/urcu/rculfhash.h
@@ -39,8 +39,8 @@ extern "C" {
  * cds_lfht_node: Contains the next pointers and reverse-hash
  * value required for lookup and traversal of the hash table.
  *
- * struct cds_lfht_node should be aligned on 4-bytes boundaries because
- * the two lower bits are used as flags.
+ * struct cds_lfht_node should be aligned on 8-bytes boundaries because
+ * the three lower bits are used as flags.
  *
  * struct cds_lfht_node can be embedded into a structure (as a field).
  * caa_container_of() can be used to get the structure from the struct
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ extern "C" {
 struct cds_lfht_node {
        struct cds_lfht_node *next;     /* ptr | BUCKET_FLAG | REMOVED_FLAG */
        unsigned long reverse_hash;
-} __attribute__((aligned(4)));
+} __attribute__((aligned(8)));
 
 /* cds_lfht_iter: Used to track state while traversing a hash chain. */
 struct cds_lfht_iter {