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From: ebiederm@xmission•com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@lhnet•ca>
Cc: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech•com>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail•com>,
	Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom•com>,
	netdev@vger•kernel.org, Cosmin Ratiu <cratiu@ixiacom•com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: allow netdev_wait_allrefs() to run faster
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2010 12:59:14 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1tyn3v9pp.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100809173429.GR30010@kvack.org> (Benjamin LaHaise's message of "Mon, 9 Aug 2010 13:34:29 -0400")

Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@lhnet•ca> writes:

> Hello Ben,
>
> On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 10:23:37AM -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
>> I was just comparing my out-of-tree patch set to .35, and it appears
>> little or none of the patches discussed in this thread are in the
>> upstream kernel yet.

The network device deletion batching code has gone in, which is
a big help, as have some dev_put deletions, so we hit that 250ms
delay less often.  

> I was waiting on Eric's sysfs changes for namespaces to settle down, but 
> ended up getting busy on other things.  I guess now is a good time to pick 
> this back up and try to merge my changes for improving interface scaling.  
> I'll send out a new version of the patches sometime in the next couple of 
> days.  I'm also about to make a new Babylon release as well, I just need 
> to write some more documentation. :-/

sysfs feature wise has now settled down, and the regressions have all
been stamped out so now should be a good time to work on scaling.

I still have some preliminary patches in my tree, that I will dig up
as time goes by.

Eric

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-08-09 19:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-17 22:18 [PATCH/RFC] make unregister_netdev() delete more than 4 interfaces per second Benjamin LaHaise
2009-10-18  4:26 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-10-18 16:13   ` Benjamin LaHaise
2009-10-18 17:51     ` Eric Dumazet
2009-10-18 18:21       ` Benjamin LaHaise
2009-10-18 19:36         ` Eric Dumazet
2009-10-21 12:39         ` Octavian Purdila
2009-10-21 15:40           ` [PATCH] net: allow netdev_wait_allrefs() to run faster Eric Dumazet
2009-10-21 16:09             ` Eric Dumazet
2009-10-21 16:51             ` Benjamin LaHaise
2009-10-21 19:54               ` Eric Dumazet
2009-10-29 23:07               ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-10-29 23:38                 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2009-10-30  1:45                   ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-10-30 14:35                     ` Benjamin LaHaise
2009-10-30 14:43                       ` Eric Dumazet
2009-10-30 23:25                       ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-10-30 23:53                         ` Benjamin LaHaise
2009-10-31  0:37                           ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-08-09 17:23                   ` Ben Greear
2010-08-09 17:34                     ` Benjamin LaHaise
2010-08-09 17:44                       ` Ben Greear
2010-08-09 17:48                         ` Benjamin LaHaise
2010-08-09 18:03                           ` Ben Greear
2010-08-09 19:59                       ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2010-08-09 21:03                         ` Benjamin LaHaise
2010-08-09 21:17                           ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-10-21 16:55             ` Octavian Purdila
2009-10-23 21:13             ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-10-24  4:35               ` Eric Dumazet
2009-10-24  5:49                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-10-24  8:49                   ` Eric Dumazet
2009-10-24 13:52                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-10-24 14:24                       ` Eric Dumazet
2009-10-24 14:46                         ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-10-24 23:49                         ` Octavian Purdila
2009-10-25  4:47                           ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-10-25  8:35                           ` Eric Dumazet
2009-10-25 15:19                             ` Octavian Purdila
2009-10-25 19:28                               ` Eric Dumazet
2009-10-24 20:22                 ` Stephen Hemminger

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