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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: maheshb@google.com
Cc: j.vosburgh@gmail.com, andy@greyhouse.net, vfalico@gmail.com,
	nikolay@redhat.com, maze@google.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	edumazet@google.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 0/4] bonding work-queues, try_rtnl() & notifications
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2015 22:16:31 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150321.221631.908834228517236497.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAF2d9jhMz4Y1ye_ofkgvXyxUJEpNnLrFjMJhHQXKbf6MSS-OVg@mail.gmail.com>

From: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2015 19:01:29 -0700

> I think you missed my earlier reply to your message. In summary, the
> notification deferral is 1ms which should not cause any trashing;
> more over with that suggested approach the rtnl-owner will have to
> do your job and will be subjected to the latencies which may be
> undesirable.

Someone has to do the work, and if the rtnl-owner does it we do not
incur all of the overhead the resubmission entails.

> OTOH this patch series is not adding any new deferral work, but just
> making it bug-free.

It's continuing a bad approach to the problem.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-03-22  2:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-21  5:39 [PATCH net-next v2 0/4] bonding work-queues, try_rtnl() & notifications Mahesh Bandewar
2015-03-21 22:17 ` David Miller
2015-03-22  2:04   ` Mahesh Bandewar
     [not found]   ` <CAF2d9jhMz4Y1ye_ofkgvXyxUJEpNnLrFjMJhHQXKbf6MSS-OVg@mail.gmail.com>
2015-03-22  2:16     ` David Miller [this message]
2015-03-22  2:23       ` Maciej Żenczykowski
2015-03-22  2:36         ` David Miller
     [not found]           ` <CAF2d9jjgfPSoBHhvD20K+5i-3ty70+kpNPK8gqe-9HKVkrrVwQ@mail.gmail.com>
2015-03-22  8:20             ` Maciej Żenczykowski

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