Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] vlan: lockless transmit path

David Miller
2010-11-16T19:24:00Z

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 10:42:00 +0100

> vlan is a stacked device, like tunnels. We should use the lockless
> mechanism we are using in tunnels and loopback.
>
> This patch completely removes locking in TX path.
>
> tx stat counters are added into existing percpu stat structure, renamed
> from vlan_rx_stats to vlan_pcpu_stats.
>
> Note : this partially reverts commit 2e59af3dcbdf (vlan: multiqueue vlan
> device)
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>

Applied, although there were some conflicts since John Fastabend
made some vlan changes recently.

Please double check my work.