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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 19:13:59 +0200

> So we have a BIG problem :
> 
> All cpus are fighting to get the socket lock,
> and very litle progress is done.
> 
> Note this problem has nothing to do with RPS, we could have 
> it with multiqueue as well.
> 
> Oh well...

Indeed, a huge issue, in that we haven't converted the UDP hash over
to RCU yet :-)

But because of the transient bind nature of UDP there are still a bunch
of cases that won't even cure.