From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: eric.dumazet@gmail.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, kaber@trash.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] vlan: lockless transmit path
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 11:24:24 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101116.112424.102532013.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1289468520.17691.1018.camel@edumazet-laptop>
From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 10:42:00 +0100
> vlan is a stacked device, like tunnels. We should use the lockless
> mechanism we are using in tunnels and loopback.
>
> This patch completely removes locking in TX path.
>
> tx stat counters are added into existing percpu stat structure, renamed
> from vlan_rx_stats to vlan_pcpu_stats.
>
> Note : this partially reverts commit 2e59af3dcbdf (vlan: multiqueue vlan
> device)
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Applied, although there were some conflicts since John Fastabend
made some vlan changes recently.
Please double check my work.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-16 19:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-11 9:42 [PATCH net-next-2.6] vlan: lockless transmit path Eric Dumazet
2010-11-11 17:40 ` Jesse Gross
2010-11-11 17:52 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-11-11 18:56 ` Jesse Gross
2010-11-11 19:42 ` [PATCH net-next-2.6] vlan: remove ndo_select_queue() logic Eric Dumazet
2010-11-11 22:24 ` Jesse Gross
2010-11-12 15:50 ` Patrick McHardy
2010-11-16 19:24 ` David Miller
2010-11-16 19:54 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-11-17 4:12 ` John Fastabend
2010-11-16 19:24 ` David Miller [this message]
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