From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
Netfilter Development Mailinglist
<netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org>,
netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] netfilter: get rid of atomic ops in fast path
Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 15:41:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D86121C.7050503@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1300468038.2888.160.camel@edumazet-laptop>
Am 18.03.2011 18:07, schrieb Eric Dumazet:
> We currently use a percpu spinlock to 'protect' rule bytes/packets
> counters, after various attempts to use RCU instead.
>
> Lately we added a seqlock so that get_counters() can run without
> blocking BH or 'writers'. But we really use the seqcount in it.
>
> Spinlock itself is only locked by the current/owner cpu, so we can
> remove it completely.
>
> This cleanups api, using correct 'writer' vs 'reader' semantic.
>
> At replace time, the get_counters() call makes sure all cpus are done
> using the old table.
I think this will have to wait until net-next opens up again since
its not a bugfix.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-20 14:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-18 17:07 [PATCH 2/2] netfilter: get rid of atomic ops in fast path Eric Dumazet
2011-03-20 14:41 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2011-03-20 19:06 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-04-03 13:15 ` [PATCH net-next-2.6] " Eric Dumazet
2011-04-04 15:05 ` Patrick McHardy
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