From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "David S. Miller" Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.5.69] Network packet type using RCU Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 00:22:19 -0700 (PDT) Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <20030519.002219.02298937.davem@redhat.com> References: <20030509142538.548cbd71.shemminger@osdl.org> <20030514072006.D23367@shell.cyberus.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: shemminger@osdl.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com Return-path: To: hadi@shell.cyberus.ca In-Reply-To: <20030514072006.D23367@shell.cyberus.ca> Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: Jamal Hadi Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 07:23:32 -0400 (EDT) Apologies i was offline for a bit so dont know the history here. I see a lot of move to rcu. There are benefits to using RCU in certain cases (example occasional list edit with a lot more reads). Why does there seem to be a massive migration it seems to RCU? Something wrong with the linked lists? If you only need one of two synchronization primitives, why have two? :-)