From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Nivedita Singhvi <niv@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Use RCU for fib_rules
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 12:20:56 -0800
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Stephen Hemminger wrote:

> The IP forwarding rules, uses rwlock when it could use RCU.
> Don't know if this would help or hurt the recent discussions about
> large rulesets and DOS attacks.
> 
> Also, it increases the size of fib_rule slightly.

Stephen,

Any benchmarks or perf tests that quantify the gain here?

thanks,
Nivedita