From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Cc: greearb@candelatech.com, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6] (3/3) vlan - use RCU
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 16:48:05 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040809164805.57f02f81.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040803134346.341e5636@dell_ss3.pdx.osdl.net>
On Tue, 3 Aug 2004 13:43:46 -0700
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> wrote:
> This patch makes VLAN use RCU for the group lookup and removes
> the group_lock. Since all operations that are done under group_lock
> already have the rtnetlink semaphore (RTNL), the group_lock is unnecessary.
> The result is the vlan code becomes basically lock free in the send/receive
> path.
Applied, thanks Stephen.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-09 23:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-03 17:50 [PATCH 2.6] (1/3) add ethtool ioctl forwarding to vlan Stephen Hemminger
2004-08-03 18:02 ` Ben Greear
2004-08-03 20:40 ` [PATCH 2.6] (2/3) vlan propogate carrier and hotplug state Stephen Hemminger
2004-08-03 20:53 ` Ben Greear
2004-08-09 23:46 ` David S. Miller
2004-08-03 20:43 ` [PATCH 2.6] (3/3) vlan - use RCU Stephen Hemminger
2004-08-03 21:03 ` Ben Greear
2004-08-09 23:48 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2004-08-04 16:56 ` [PATCH 2.6] (1/3) add ethtool ioctl forwarding to vlan David S. Miller
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