From: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
To: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 0/7] rtnetlink: allow selected handlers to run without rtnl
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2017 10:23:21 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <76093bc0-332d-79c8-f7dd-2bb526e0f915@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170810112939.GA20558@breakpoint.cc>
On 8/10/17 5:29 AM, Florian Westphal wrote:
> David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 8/9/17 6:21 PM, David Miller wrote:
>>>
>>> Ok series applied, let's see where this goes :-)
>>>
>>
>> 1 hour in, 1 problem reported
>
> Its even worse. Would you rather see a revert?
no.
>
> I'm sure that you are aware that the widespread rtnl usage is a
> problem because it does hurt scalability. I still think its worth trying
> to disentangle this where possible.
agreed. Going to be pain along the way, but it needs to be done. Thanks
for taking the initiative on it.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-08-10 16:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-09 18:41 [PATCH v2 net-next 0/7] rtnetlink: allow selected handlers to run without rtnl Florian Westphal
2017-08-09 18:41 ` [PATCH v2 net-next 1/7] rtnetlink: call rtnl_calcit directly Florian Westphal
2017-08-09 18:41 ` [PATCH v2 net-next 2/7] rtnetlink: make rtnl_register accept a flags parameter Florian Westphal
2017-08-09 18:41 ` [PATCH v2 net-next 3/7] rtnetlink: add reference counting to prevent module unload while dump is in progress Florian Westphal
2017-08-09 18:41 ` [PATCH v2 net-next 4/7] rtnetlink: small rtnl lock pushdown Florian Westphal
2017-08-09 18:41 ` [PATCH v2 net-next 5/7] rtnetlink: protect handler table with rcu Florian Westphal
2017-08-10 8:26 ` Ido Schimmel
2017-08-09 18:41 ` [PATCH v2 net-next 6/7] rtnetlink: add RTNL_FLAG_DOIT_UNLOCKED Florian Westphal
2017-08-09 18:41 ` [PATCH v2 net-next 7/7] net: call newid/getid without rtnl mutex held Florian Westphal
2017-08-10 0:21 ` [PATCH v2 net-next 0/7] rtnetlink: allow selected handlers to run without rtnl David Miller
2017-08-10 1:27 ` David Ahern
2017-08-10 11:29 ` Florian Westphal
2017-08-10 16:23 ` David Ahern [this message]
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