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From: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: sched: run ingress qdisc without locks
Date: Fri, 01 May 2015 10:32:27 -0700
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On 5/1/15 7:04 AM, John Fastabend wrote:
>
> Well there is still the TX side, although not as obvious because
> of mq and mqprio. Hopefully by say next LPC we can remove the
> qdisc lock there in many scenarios. Also the netif_tx_lock is
> there as well but many (most?) of the 10G/40G/etc devices can
> create per core descriptor rings. I'll start prodding away on that
> side shortly I suppose.

that will be massive! 'per core descriptor ring' sounds like new
driver API. Looking forward to your work :)