On Fri, 10 Apr 2009, David Miller wrote:I wonder if we should bring in the RCU people too, for them to tell you that the networking people are beign silly, and should not synchronize with the very heavy-handed synchronize_net() but instead of doing synchronization (which is probably why adding a few hundred rules then takes several seconds - each synchronizes and that takes a timer tick or so), add the rules to be free'd on some rcu-freeing list for later freeing. Or whatever. Paul? synchronize_net() just calls synchronize_rcu(), and with that knowledge and a simple git show 784544739a25c30637397ace5489eeb6e15d7d49 I bet you can already tell people how to fix their performance issue. Linus --- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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