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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: Raghuram.Kothakota@oracle.com
Cc: sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] sunvnet: Packet processing in non-interrupt context.
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 00:36:28 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141010.003628.646817757614430018.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <EB9A1CD1-6E1D-409C-89CB-95CC9A5AFC1D@oracle.com>

From: Raghuram Kothakota <Raghuram.Kothakota@oracle.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2014 18:10:24 -0700

> Lock less Tx and Rx implementation is very nice, but requires to the
> code path to single threaded to achieve it.

I would like to know how you believe the Linux LLTX "lockless TX"
facility works.

It's not truly lockless, it just turns off the generic networking TX
path per-queue spinlock and puts the full burdon on the driver.  It's
just moving the locking from one place to another, not eliminating it.

  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-10  4:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-01 18:56 [PATCH net-next 0/2] sunvnet: Packet processing in non-interrupt context Sowmini Varadhan
2014-10-01 19:10 ` Eric Dumazet
2014-10-01 19:50 ` David Miller
2014-10-01 19:55   ` Sowmini Varadhan
2014-10-01 20:15     ` David Miller
2014-10-01 20:23       ` Sowmini Varadhan
2014-10-01 20:25         ` David Miller
2014-10-02 20:12           ` Sowmini Varadhan
2014-10-02 20:43             ` David Miller
2014-10-03 14:40               ` Sowmini Varadhan
2014-10-03 19:08                 ` David Miller
2014-10-06 16:04                   ` Sowmini Varadhan
2014-10-06 19:25                     ` David Miller
2014-10-06 19:31                       ` Sowmini Varadhan
2014-10-06 19:37                         ` David Miller
2014-10-10  1:10                         ` Raghuram Kothakota
2014-10-10  4:36                           ` David Miller [this message]
2014-10-10  4:56                             ` Raghuram Kothakota
2014-10-10  5:03                               ` David Miller
2014-10-10  5:13                                 ` Raghuram Kothakota
2014-10-15 14:05                   ` sunvnet NAPIfication Sowmini Varadhan
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-10-01 20:24 [PATCH net-next 0/2] sunvnet: Packet processing in non-interrupt context Sowmini Varadhan

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