Re: [PATCH 3/3] Convert the UDP hash lock to RCU

David Miller
2008-10-07T18:26:59Z

From: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 07:24:45 +0200

> Most UDP sockets are setup for long periods (RTP trafic), or if an application really
> wants to {open/send or receive one UDP frame/close} many sockets, it already hits
> RCU handling of its file structures and should not be slowed down that much.

As stated, I added RCU destruction generically for socket objects, and it
showed up clearly.

So "not be slowed down that much" has been disproven, at least to me,
already :-)