From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Dumazet Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/10] netdev: get rid of read_lock(&dev_base_lock) usages Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:39:20 +0100 Message-ID: <4AF9B358.9030006@gmail.com> References: <20091110175446.280423729@vyatta.com> <4AF9AE66.3010303@gmail.com> <20091110102442.733c22bc@nehalam> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: David Miller , netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Stephen Hemminger Return-path: Received: from gw1.cosmosbay.com ([212.99.114.194]:50608 "EHLO gw1.cosmosbay.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757583AbZKJSjR (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:39:17 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20091110102442.733c22bc@nehalam> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Stephen Hemminger a =E9crit : > I was just trying to pick up the stragglers you left behind :-) >=20 > The nasty cases left are bonding (whose existing locking model is a p= ile > of crap), and sysfs (slightly less stinky). The bonding code just nee= ds to > be rewritten to have a sane/simple model.=20 >=20 I was thinking of improving bonding, so it might be good to coordinate = our work :) 1) Get rid of rwlock in tx fast path. (RCU ? did I said RCU) 2) multi queue support (Got two dual 82599 dual ports cards from Intel = :) )