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From: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 18:12:03 +0100

> More seriously Stephen, if the infrastructure is clean, and well
> tested on a relative simple case (UDP), it can then be deployed on a
> much more interesting protocol : TCP

I'm really looking forward to someone finally tackling that problem :)

> The moment we switch to RCU, we have to accept the pain of really
> understand what we did. Details are scary yes.

Agreed.