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Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 15:25:57 +0200 From: "Steinar H. Gunderson" <sgunderson@...foot.com> To: Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...hat.com> Subject: Re: getaddrinfo slowdown in 3.17.1, due to getifaddrs On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 07:25:17AM +0100, Thomas Graf wrote: > I think the only option at this point is to re-add the nltable lock to > netlink_lookup() so we can drop the synchronize_net() until we find a > way to RCUify socket destruction. I will cook up a patch today unless > somebody can come up with a smarter way to work around needing the > synchronize_net(). Did you end up with a patch? We'd like to reboot the server in question soon-ish, but it's an open question whether we should go to 3.16.x, revert exactly the patches in question or something else. /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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