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From: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu•com>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail•com>,
	Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail•com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@vger•kernel.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft•net>,
	Cong Wang <cwang@twopensource•com>
Subject: Re: [Patch net-next] net_sched: hold tcf_lock in netdevice notifier
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2014 18:02:13 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53CAEAE5.3090300@mojatatu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1405667332.10255.92.camel@edumazet-glaptop2.roam.corp.google.com>

On 07/18/14 03:08, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-07-17 at 22:51 -0700, Cong Wang wrote:
>
> If this conversion was already done by John, I would have pointed the
> patch to finalize.
>
> There is nothing fundamental that requires this spinlock being held in
> fast path.
>
> It is perfectly possible to remove this, and first step is to use RCU,
> then percpu counters.
>

I think rcufication would help in some the shared action instances.
Note: post John's rcu-fication of classifier path this is not an
issue i.e
the most common use case default behavior (majority) is no sharing of
instances - in such a case there is no lock contention.

cheers,
jamal

  reply	other threads:[~2014-07-19 22:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-16 21:25 [Patch net-next] net_sched: cancel nest attribute on failure in tcf_exts_dump() Cong Wang
2014-07-16 21:25 ` [Patch net-next] net_sched: hold tcf_lock in netdevice notifier Cong Wang
2014-07-17 12:49   ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2014-07-17 16:45     ` Cong Wang
2014-07-17 18:17       ` Eric Dumazet
2014-07-17 21:25         ` Cong Wang
2014-07-18  5:37           ` Eric Dumazet
2014-07-18  5:51             ` Cong Wang
2014-07-18  7:08               ` Eric Dumazet
2014-07-19 22:02                 ` Jamal Hadi Salim [this message]
2014-07-17 23:01   ` David Miller
2014-07-21  3:31   ` David Miller
2014-07-17  6:51 ` [Patch net-next] net_sched: cancel nest attribute on failure in tcf_exts_dump() David Miller
2014-07-17 12:39 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2014-07-17 21:59 ` David Miller

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