Re: [PATCH] netfilter: use per-cpu spinlock rather than RCU

From: Jeff Chua
Date: Tue Apr 14 2009 - 12:52:22 EST


On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 11:49 PM, Eric Dumazet <dada1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Stephen Hemminger a écrit :
>> On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:23:33 +0200
>> Eric Dumazet <dada1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Patrick McHardy a écrit :
>>>> Stephen Hemminger wrote:
>>>>> This is an alternative version of ip/ip6/arp tables locking using
>>>>> per-cpu locks.  This avoids the overhead of synchronize_net() during
>>>>> update but still removes the expensive rwlock in earlier versions.

Tested. Loaded as fast as 2.6.29.

> Here is an updated patch ontop of yours, with the smp_wmb() in xt_replace_table() :

Tested as well. Loaded as fast as 2.6.29.

Thanks,
Jeff.
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