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Date:	Wed, 14 Apr 2010 07:35:25 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: sk_dst_cache RCUification

Le mardi 13 avril 2010 à 16:11 -0700, David Miller a écrit :
> From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
> Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 01:04:05 +0200
> 
> > Instead of using rcu on whole "struct socket", my plan is to use a small
> > structure :
> > 
> > struct wait_queue_head_rcu {
> > 	wait_queue_head_t wait;
> > 	struct rcu_head	  rcu;
> > } ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp;
> > 
> > and make sk->sk_sleep points to this 'wait' field.
> 
> So you're relying upon the fact that in the non-FASYNC case
> the struct socket's wait queue is never actually used?

Yes, for the first phase of my work, by asynch handling might be RCUfied
too in a second phase :)



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