From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: allow netdev_wait_allrefs() to run faster Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2010 12:59:14 -0700 Message-ID: References: <20091017221857.GG1925@kvack.org> <4ADB55BC.5020107@gmail.com> <20091018182144.GC23395@kvack.org> <200910211539.01824.opurdila@ixiacom.com> <4ADF2B57.4030708@gmail.com> <20091021165139.GL877@kvack.org> <20091029233848.GV3141@kvack.org> <4C603999.1030801@candelatech.com> <20100809173429.GR30010@kvack.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Ben Greear , Eric Dumazet , Octavian Purdila , netdev@vger.kernel.org, Cosmin Ratiu To: Benjamin LaHaise Return-path: Received: from out01.mta.xmission.com ([166.70.13.231]:60435 "EHLO out01.mta.xmission.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755535Ab0HIT7V (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Aug 2010 15:59:21 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20100809173429.GR30010@kvack.org> (Benjamin LaHaise's message of "Mon, 9 Aug 2010 13:34:29 -0400") Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Benjamin LaHaise 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