From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Ahern 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 Message-ID: <76093bc0-332d-79c8-f7dd-2bb526e0f915@gmail.com> References: <20170809184153.16700-1-fw@strlen.de> <20170809.172114.233866755819084584.davem@davemloft.net> <901d1f86-543b-8225-f87f-e1ab7df3e1a8@gmail.com> <20170810112939.GA20558@breakpoint.cc> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Florian Westphal Return-path: Received: from mail-pg0-f65.google.com ([74.125.83.65]:34661 "EHLO mail-pg0-f65.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752381AbdHJQXX (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Aug 2017 12:23:23 -0400 Received: by mail-pg0-f65.google.com with SMTP id y192so995170pgd.1 for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2017 09:23:23 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20170810112939.GA20558@breakpoint.cc> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 8/10/17 5:29 AM, Florian Westphal wrote: > David Ahern 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.