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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com>
Cc: opurdila@ixiacom.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] llc: use a device based hash table to speed up multicast delivery
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 15:25:13 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091203152513.643c471a@nehalam> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1259879498-27860-4-git-send-email-opurdila@ixiacom.com>

On Fri,  4 Dec 2009 00:31:37 +0200
Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com> wrote:

> This patch adds a per SAP device based hash table to solve the
> multicast delivery scalability issues for the case where the are a
> large number of interfaces and a large number of sockets (bound to the
> same SAP) are used.

Rather than adding hash table and rwlock, why not hash list RCU
and a single spin lock

-- 

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-12-03 23:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-03 22:31 [PATCH 0/4] llc enhancements Octavian Purdila
2009-12-03 22:31 ` [PATCH 1/4] llc: use dev_hard_header Octavian Purdila
2009-12-03 22:31 ` [PATCH 2/4] llc: add support for LLC_OPT_PKTINFO Octavian Purdila
2009-12-03 22:31 ` [PATCH 3/4] llc: use a device based hash table to speed up multicast delivery Octavian Purdila
2009-12-03 22:59   ` Eric Dumazet
2009-12-03 23:30     ` Octavian Purdila
2009-12-03 23:52       ` Eric Dumazet
2009-12-04  0:15         ` Octavian Purdila
2009-12-04  0:28           ` Eric Dumazet
2009-12-08 21:10         ` [RFC PATCH] llc: convert the socket list to RCU locking (was Re: [PATCH 3/4] llc: use a device based hash table to speed up multicast delivery) Octavian Purdila
2009-12-08 21:26           ` Eric Dumazet
2009-12-09 20:19           ` Eric Dumazet
2009-12-09 20:36             ` Octavian Purdila
2009-12-09 21:49               ` Octavian Purdila
2009-12-09 22:34                 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-12-09 20:52           ` Jarek Poplawski
2009-12-03 23:25   ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2009-12-03 23:53     ` [PATCH 3/4] llc: use a device based hash table to speed up multicast delivery Octavian Purdila
2009-12-04  0:37       ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-12-03 22:31 ` [PATCH 4/4] llc: replace the socket list with a local address based hash Octavian Purdila
2009-12-03 23:55 ` [PATCH 0/4] llc enhancements David Miller
2009-12-04  0:20   ` Octavian Purdila

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