netdev - Re: [PATCH 20/31]: pkt_sched: Perform bulk of qdisc destruction in RCU.

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Date:	Sun, 20 Jul 2008 22:20:42 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	hadi@...erus.ca
Cc:	kaber@...sh.net, davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	johannes@...solutions.net, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 20/31]: pkt_sched: Perform bulk of qdisc destruction in	RCU.

jamal <hadi@...erus.ca> wrote:
>
> Actions are fine because they are intended to be globaly shared.
> [i.e A classifier on ethx with qdiscA:Y (in/egress) can share an action
> with  classifer on  ethy with qdiscB:Z (eg/ingress)].

Not all actions :) That nat action for example wasn't intended to
be shared at all.  In fact I still need to submit a patch to make
it skip the shared hash as otherwise it simply won't scale as the
number of nat actions increases (e.g., to 256K).

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