From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Paul E. McKenney" Subject: Re: [PATCH] netfilter: use per-cpu recursive lock (v11) Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 09:37:58 -0700 Message-ID: <20090421163758.GF6642@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <20090417012812.GA25534@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20090418094001.GA2369@ioremap.net> <20090418141455.GA7082@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20090420103414.1b4c490f@nehalam> <49ECBE0A.7010303@cosmosbay.com> <18924.59347.375292.102385@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <20090420215827.GK6822@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <18924.64032.103954.171918@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <20090420160121.268a8226@nehalam> <49ED52B1.7050601@cosmosbay.com> Reply-To: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Stephen Hemminger , Paul Mackerras , Evgeniy Polyakov , David Miller , kaber@trash.net, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, jeff.chua.linux@gmail.com, mingo@elte.hu, laijs@cn.fujitsu.com, jengelh@medozas.de, r000n@r000n.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, benh@kernel.crashing.org, mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca To: Eric Dumazet Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <49ED52B1.7050601@cosmosbay.com> Sender: netfilter-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 06:59:29AM +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote: [ . . . ] > Hopefully, next rcu_bh (or whatever name is used) will permit us > to switch back to pure RCU in 2.6.31 My excursion in to rcu_fgp can be thought of as a training exercise for doing this, though perhaps others are also working on an upgraded rcu_bh as well. Thanx, Paul