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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@comx.dk>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>,
	Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>,
	netfilter-devel <netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org>,
	netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 net-next-2.6] netfilter: x_tables: dont block BH while reading counters
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 21:40:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1292532008.2655.8.camel@edumazet-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101216121238.53deb370@nehalam>

Le jeudi 16 décembre 2010 à 12:12 -0800, Stephen Hemminger a écrit :
> You changed from:
>   get local cpu counters
>   then sum other cpus
> to:
>   sum all cpu's.
> 
> This is fine, and will give the same answer. 
> 

Yes, I did that because the fetch of individual counters is now more
complex.

I tried to make code smaller and less complex. Eventually we are now
allowed to be preempted and even migrated to another cpu during the
process.


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  reply	other threads:[~2010-12-16 20:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-14 14:46 Possible regression: Packet drops during iptables calls Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2010-12-14 15:31 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-12-14 16:09   ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2010-12-14 16:24     ` Eric Dumazet
2010-12-16 14:04       ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2010-12-16 14:12         ` Eric Dumazet
2010-12-16 14:24           ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2010-12-16 14:29             ` Eric Dumazet
2010-12-16 15:02               ` Eric Dumazet
2010-12-16 16:07                 ` [PATCH net-next-2.6] netfilter: ip_tables: dont block BH while reading counters Eric Dumazet
2010-12-16 16:53                   ` [PATCH v2 " Eric Dumazet
2010-12-16 17:31                     ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-12-16 17:53                       ` [PATCH v3 net-next-2.6] netfilter: x_tables: " Eric Dumazet
2010-12-16 17:57                         ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-12-16 19:58                           ` Eric Dumazet
2010-12-16 20:12                             ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-12-16 20:40                               ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2010-12-16 17:57                         ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-12-18  4:29                         ` [PATCH v4 " Eric Dumazet
2010-12-20 13:42                           ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2010-12-20 14:45                             ` Eric Dumazet
2010-12-21 16:48                               ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2011-01-08 16:45                           ` Eric Dumazet
2011-01-09 21:31                             ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2010-12-16 14:13         ` Possible regression: Packet drops during iptables calls Eric Dumazet
2010-12-16 14:20         ` Steven Rostedt

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