From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: stephen@networkplumber.org
Cc: tgraf@suug.ch, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au,
paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, edumazet@google.com,
john.r.fastabend@intel.com, josh@joshtriplett.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] netlink: get rid of nl_table_lock
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 17:19:41 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150106.171941.296781199194329785.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150103110211.18b11f0f@urahara>
From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2015 11:02:11 -0800
> As a follow on to Thomas's patch I think this would complete the
> transistion to RCU for netlink.
> Compile tested only.
>
> This patch gets rid of the reader/writer nl_table_lock and replaces it
> with exclusively using RCU for reading, and a mutex for writing.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
FWIW, this approach looks fine to me.
Thomas can you review this?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-06 22:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-02 22:00 [PATCH 0/9 net-next v2] rhashtable: Per bucket locks & deferred table resizing Thomas Graf
2015-01-02 22:00 ` [PATCH 1/9] rhashtable: Do hashing inside of rhashtable_lookup_compare() Thomas Graf
2015-01-16 15:37 ` Patrick McHardy
2015-01-16 16:00 ` Thomas Graf
2015-01-02 22:00 ` [PATCH 2/9] rhashtable: Use rht_obj() instead of manual offset calculation Thomas Graf
2015-01-02 22:00 ` [PATCH 3/9] rhashtable: Convert bucket iterators to take table and index Thomas Graf
2015-01-02 22:00 ` [PATCH 4/9] rhashtable: Factor out bucket_tail() function Thomas Graf
2015-01-02 22:00 ` [PATCH 5/9] nft_hash: Remove rhashtable_remove_pprev() Thomas Graf
2015-01-02 22:00 ` [PATCH 6/9] spinlock: Add spin_lock_bh_nested() Thomas Graf
2015-01-02 22:00 ` [PATCH 7/9] rhashtable: Per bucket locks & deferred expansion/shrinking Thomas Graf
2015-01-02 22:00 ` [PATCH 8/9] rhashtable: Supports for nulls marker Thomas Graf
2015-01-02 22:00 ` [PATCH 9/9] netlink: Lockless lookup with RCU grace period in socket release Thomas Graf
2015-01-03 19:02 ` [RFC] netlink: get rid of nl_table_lock Stephen Hemminger
2015-01-06 22:19 ` David Miller [this message]
2015-01-06 23:00 ` Thomas Graf
2015-01-03 19:44 ` [PATCH 0/9 net-next v2] rhashtable: Per bucket locks & deferred table resizing David Miller
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