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=46rom: Maciej =AFenczykowski <maze@google.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2015 19:23:51 -0700

>> Someone has to do the work, and if the rtnl-owner does it we do not
>> incur all of the overhead the resubmission entails.
>=20
> Are you suggesting:
> - adding a global queue of (function pointer, long arg)
> - changing rtnl_unlock to iterate through the queue calling
> function(arg) before it actually releases the rtnl lock
> ?

Something like that.

> I guess at that point you could even have a generic method
>=20
> void asynch_call_under_rtnl(function, arg) {
>   rtnl_callback_add_to_queue(function,arg)
>   if (rtnl_try_lock())
>     rtnl_unlock();
> }

Right.