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From: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] udp: Convert the UDP hash lock to RCU
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:50:49 +0100
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Stephen Hemminger a =E9crit :
> On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:37:15 +0100
> Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> wrote:
>> We use RCU only for fast path. Thus, /proc/net/udp still take rdlock=
s.
>=20
> We should just make it a spin_lock later and speed up udp socket crea=
tion.

Indeed