From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>, Eric Leblond <eric@regit.org>,
sclark46@earthlink.net, Kuzin Andrey <kuzinandrey@yandex.ru>,
Anders Nilsson Plymoth <lanilsson@gmail.com>,
netfilter-devel <netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org>,
netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] nfnetlink: add RCU in nfnetlink_rcv_msg()
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 16:06:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E243DFE.4080100@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1309534078.2599.25.camel@edumazet-HP-Compaq-6005-Pro-SFF-PC>
On 01.07.2011 17:27, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> [PATCH 1/2] nfnetlink: add RCU in nfnetlink_rcv_msg()
>
> Goal of this patch is to permit nfnetlink providers not mandate
> nfnl_mutex being held while nfnetlink_rcv_msg() calls them.
>
> If struct nfnl_callback contains a non NULL call_rcu(), then
> nfnetlink_rcv_msg() will use it instead of call() field, holding
> rcu_read_lock instead of nfnl_mutex
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
> CC: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
> CC: Eric Leblond <eric@regit.org>
> CC: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Applied, thanks Eric.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-18 14:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-29 9:17 netfilter queue throughput slowdown Anders Nilsson Plymoth
2011-06-29 9:47 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-06-29 9:55 ` Anders Nilsson Plymoth
2011-06-29 10:08 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-06-30 6:20 ` Kuzin Andrey
2011-06-30 6:47 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-06-30 7:36 ` Kuzin Andrey
2011-06-30 11:34 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-06-30 11:59 ` Patrick McHardy
2011-06-30 15:15 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-06-30 14:32 ` Stephen Clark
2011-06-30 14:51 ` Patrick McHardy
2011-06-30 17:07 ` Eric Leblond
2011-06-30 17:45 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-06-30 18:08 ` Eric Leblond
2011-07-01 6:39 ` Amos Jeffries
2011-07-01 7:00 ` [RFC] nfnetlink_queue not scalable Eric Dumazet
2011-07-01 7:49 ` Florian Westphal
2011-07-01 15:27 ` [PATCH 1/2] nfnetlink: add RCU in nfnetlink_rcv_msg() Eric Dumazet
2011-07-01 14:11 ` Florian Westphal
2011-07-05 13:22 ` Patrick McHardy
2011-07-18 14:06 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2011-07-01 15:08 ` netfilter queue throughput slowdown Anders Nilsson Plymoth
2011-06-30 22:24 ` Sam Roberts
2011-07-01 4:53 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-06-30 22:26 ` Sam Roberts
2011-07-01 4:52 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-07-02 12:25 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
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