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Date:	Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:12:13 +0200
From:	Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@....nl>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	andi@...stfloor.org, dada1@...mosbay.com, davej@...hat.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: cat /proc/net/tcp takes 0.5 seconds on x86_64

David Miller wrote:
> From: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
> Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:45:36 +0200
> 
>>> When scanning route cache hash table, we can avoid taking locks for empty 
>>> buckets.
>> I'm not sure it's worth it in this case.  A rcu_read_lock() is a nop
>> (on non preemptible kernel) to very cheap (non atomic increment/decrement in 
>> cached task_struct) 
> 
> It's not one, it's at least two such increments, plus function calls,
> state checks, etc. since this is rcu_read_lock_bh().
> 

I'm very happy to see some progress on this and this leading to even more 
optimalizations elsewhere,

Thanks guys!

Regards,

Hans


p.s.

Can I please be removed from the CC, thanks!
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