linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] netfilter: use per-cpu spinlock rather than RCU (v2)

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Message-ID: <20090414141125.53af6fdc@nehalam>
Date:	Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:11:25 -0700
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>
Cc:	Jeff Chua <jeff.chua.linux@...il.com>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>, paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, paulus@...ba.org,
	mingo@...e.hu, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, laijs@...fujitsu.com,
	jengelh@...ozas.de, r000n@...0n.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	benh@...nel.crashing.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netfilter: use per-cpu spinlock rather than RCU (v2)

> Oh well, it seems factorization of this stuff is not what you want, so
> I'll stop arguing.

That's no fun..  I didn't mind the refactorizing, but was concerned
that it caused the locking to be out of line in fast path. 
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