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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] ipv6: prevent fib6_run_gc() contention
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 16:43:59 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz>
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2013 00:19:31 +0200

> I received the feedback today. The customer reported the patch moving
> update of ip6_rt_last_gc into fib6_run_gc() before the call of
> fib6_clean_all() was not sufficient to prevent the contention with their
> workload.
> 
> So I suggest to return back to the approach I submitted originally but
> to move the update into fib6_run_gc() anyway so that every run of the
> garbage collector updates it. I will submit the patches tomorrow.

Fair enough.