From: "Timo Teräs" <timo.teras@iki•fi>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor•apana.org.au>
Cc: netdev@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] flow: virtualize flow cache entry methods
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2010 16:26:28 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BBB3684.8070807@iki.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100406123404.GA24294@gondor.apana.org.au>
Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 08:01:24PM +0300, Timo Teras wrote:
>> This allows to validate the cached object before returning it.
>> It also allows to destruct object properly, if the last reference
>> was held in flow cache. This is also a prepartion for caching
>> bundles in the flow cache.
>>
>> In return for virtualizing the methods, we save on:
>> - not having to regenerate the whole flow cache on policy removal:
>> each flow matching a killed policy gets refreshed as the getter
>> function notices it smartly.
>> - we do not have to call flow_cache_flush from policy gc, since the
>> flow cache now properly deletes the object if it had any references
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Timo Teras <timo.teras@iki•fi>
>
> Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor•apana.org.au>
>
> Thanks a lot for the patch!
As noticed in review of 2/4, this needs to be fixed by calling
flow object delete() unconditionally if genid is outdated. I'll
repost with this fixed for next iteration.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-06 13:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-05 7:00 [PATCH 0/4] caching bundles, iteration 4 Timo Teras
2010-04-05 7:00 ` [PATCH 1/4] flow: virtualize flow cache entry methods Timo Teras
2010-04-05 8:33 ` Herbert Xu
2010-04-05 8:36 ` Timo Teräs
2010-04-05 8:44 ` Herbert Xu
2010-04-05 8:49 ` Herbert Xu
2010-04-05 8:53 ` Timo Teräs
2010-04-05 9:12 ` Herbert Xu
2010-04-05 17:01 ` Timo Teras
2010-04-06 12:34 ` Herbert Xu
2010-04-06 13:26 ` Timo Teräs [this message]
2010-04-07 9:15 ` David Miller
2010-04-05 7:00 ` [PATCH 2/4] xfrm: cache bundles instead of policies for outgoing flows Timo Teras
2010-04-06 12:40 ` Herbert Xu
2010-04-06 12:55 ` Timo Teräs
2010-04-06 13:11 ` Herbert Xu
2010-04-05 7:00 ` [PATCH 3/4] xfrm: remove policy garbage collection Timo Teras
2010-04-05 7:00 ` [PATCH 4/4] flow: delayed deletion of flow cache entries Timo Teras
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-04-07 10:30 [PATCH 0/4] caching bundles, iteration 5 Timo Teras
2010-04-07 10:30 ` [PATCH 1/4] flow: virtualize flow cache entry methods Timo Teras
2010-04-01 12:52 [PATCH 0/4] caching bundles, iteration 3 Timo Teras
2010-04-01 12:52 ` [PATCH 1/4] flow: virtualize flow cache entry methods Timo Teras
2010-04-01 13:05 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-01 13:07 ` Timo Teräs
2010-04-03 3:38 ` Herbert Xu
2010-04-03 8:36 ` Herbert Xu
2010-04-03 13:50 ` Timo Teräs
2010-04-03 14:17 ` Herbert Xu
2010-04-03 14:26 ` Timo Teräs
2010-04-03 15:53 ` Herbert Xu
2010-04-03 20:19 ` Timo Teräs
2010-04-04 2:06 ` Herbert Xu
2010-04-04 5:50 ` Timo Teräs
2010-04-04 5:58 ` Herbert Xu
2010-04-04 6:07 ` Timo Teräs
2010-04-04 6:19 ` Herbert Xu
2010-04-04 6:28 ` Timo Teräs
2010-04-04 8:35 ` Herbert Xu
2010-04-04 10:42 ` Herbert Xu
2010-04-04 10:50 ` Timo Teräs
2010-04-04 11:00 ` Herbert Xu
2010-04-04 11:06 ` Timo Teräs
2010-04-04 11:26 ` Herbert Xu
2010-04-04 11:31 ` Herbert Xu
2010-04-04 12:09 ` Timo Teräs
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