From: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] ipv6_fib limit spinlock hold times for /proc/net/ipv6_route
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 13:21:05 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <535E8E01.6070908@fb.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140426.001134.778620720962127881.davem@davemloft.net>
On 04/26/2014 12:11 AM, David Miller wrote:
> From: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
> Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 16:27:21 -0400
>
>> Ah ok, so the rtnl mutex can replace rcu_read_lock(). Will it end up
>> blocking any traffic? (sorry, filesystem guys are a little slow)
>
> It stops networking configuration operations.
>
> BTW, this means that netlink based ipv6 route dumps can be
> optimized similarly. Because those code paths implicitly
> hold the RTNL mutex.
>
Ok, the rtnl mutex looks like a much better path. I'll give it a shot
this week.
If anyone working on patches in this area wants help testing, just let
me know.
-chris
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-28 19:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-24 13:59 [PATCH RFC] ipv6_fib limit spinlock hold times for /proc/net/ipv6_route Chris Mason
2014-04-24 14:20 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2014-04-24 14:30 ` Eric Dumazet
2014-04-24 14:41 ` Chris Mason
2014-04-25 21:31 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2014-04-26 4:06 ` David Miller
2014-04-24 14:20 ` Eric Dumazet
2014-04-25 19:53 ` David Miller
2014-04-25 20:09 ` David Miller
2014-04-25 20:27 ` Chris Mason
2014-04-25 21:52 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2014-04-26 4:11 ` David Miller
2014-04-28 17:21 ` Chris Mason [this message]
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