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Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 net-next 00/11] neighbour: Namespacify arp_tbl and
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To: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>, Andrew Lunn
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On 8/5/26 7:11 PM, Kuniyuki Iwashima wrote:
> The neighbour subsystem is almost ready to drop RTNL.
> 
> However, the control paths are serialised by the global
> per-table lock.
> 
> This series converts arp_tbl and nd_tbl to per-netns table.

Another attempt at this. The last one as I recall:

https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20180717120651.15748-1-dsahern@kernel.org/

I think it is past time to make this happen.