From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: [RFC 0/7] neighbour table lockless read Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 14:20:04 -0700 Message-ID: <20060814212004.606140865@localhost.localdomain> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:16874 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964959AbWHNVYn (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Aug 2006 17:24:43 -0400 To: David Miller Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org This set of patches changes the neighbour table used by ARP and IPV6 neighbour discovery to use RCU and seqlock's. This improves performance by eliminated locked instructions in the common case. --