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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] net_sched: RCU conversion of stab
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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 14:48:19 +0100

> This patch converts stab qdisc management to RCU, so that we can perform
> the qdisc_calculate_pkt_len() call before getting qdisc lock.
> 
> This shortens the lock's held time in __dev_xmit_skb().
> 
> This permits more qdiscs to get TCQ_F_CAN_BYPASS status, avoiding lot of
> cache misses and so reducing latencies.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>

Applied.