Re: [PATCH, RFC] RCU : OOM avoidance and lower latency

Eric Dumazet
2006-01-07T07:34:55Z

Andi Kleen a écrit :
>
> I always disliked the per chain spinlocks even for other hash tables like
> TCP/UDP multiplex - it would be much nicer to use a much smaller separately
> hashed lock table and save cache. In this case the special case of using
> a one entry only lock hash table makes sense.
>

I agree, I do use a hashed spinlock array on my local tree for TCP, mainly to
reduce the hash table size by a 2 factor.

Eric