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* [RFC 0/7] neighbour table lockless read
@ 2006-08-14 21:20 Stephen Hemminger
  2006-08-14 21:20 ` [RFC 1/7] net neighbor: convert top level list to RCU Stephen Hemminger
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From: Stephen Hemminger @ 2006-08-14 21:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: David Miller; +Cc: netdev

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.

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2006-08-14 21:20 [RFC 0/7] neighbour table lockless read Stephen Hemminger
2006-08-14 21:20 ` [RFC 1/7] net neighbor: convert top level list to RCU Stephen Hemminger
2006-08-14 21:20 ` [RFC 2/7] neighbour: convert neighbour hash table to hlist Stephen Hemminger
2006-08-14 21:20 ` [RFC 3/7] neighbour: convert pneigh " Stephen Hemminger
2006-08-14 21:20 ` [RFC 4/7] net neighbour: convert to RCU Stephen Hemminger
2006-08-14 21:20 ` [RFC 5/7] neighbour: convert lookup to sequence lock Stephen Hemminger
2006-08-14 22:22   ` Thomas Graf
2006-08-14 22:37     ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-08-14 23:17       ` Thomas Graf
2006-08-15  0:42         ` Alexey Kuznetsov
2006-08-14 21:20 ` [RFC 6/7] neighbour: convert hard header cache to sequence number Stephen Hemminger
2006-08-14 21:20 ` [RFC 7/7] neighbour: reduce exports Stephen Hemminger

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