netdev - Re: [PATCH] bnx2x: add support for receive hashing

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Date:	Tue, 27 Apr 2010 19:37:52 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	bmb@...enacr.com, therbert@...gle.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	rick.jones2@...com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bnx2x: add support for receive hashing

Le mardi 27 avril 2010 à 10:20 -0700, David Miller a écrit :

> 
> Indeed, a huge issue, in that we haven't converted the UDP hash over
> to RCU yet :-)
> 

I am not sure what you mean, UDP hash _is_ RCU converted ;)

> But because of the transient bind nature of UDP there are still a bunch
> of cases that won't even cure.
> --

We might use the ticket spinlock paradigm to let writers go in parallel
and let the user the socket lock

Instead of having the bh_lock_sock() to protect receive_queue *and*
backlog, writers get a unique slot in a table, that 'user' can handle
later.

Or serialize writers (before they try to bh_lock_sock()) with a
dedicated lock, so that user has 50% chances to get the sock lock,
contending with at most one writer.



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