netdev - Re: Kernel rwlock design, Multicore and IGMP

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Message-ID: <20101112093345.GC5949@cr0.nay.redhat.com>
Date:	Fri, 12 Nov 2010 17:33:45 +0800
From:	Américo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	Américo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>,
	Cypher Wu <cypher.w@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Kernel rwlock design, Multicore and IGMP

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 10:22:39AM +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>Le vendredi 12 novembre 2010 à 16:19 +0800, Américo Wang a écrit :
>> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 08:27:54AM +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>
>> >A RCU conversion is far more complex.
>> >
>> 
>> Yup.
>
>
>Well, actually this is easy in this case.
>
>I'll post a patch to do this RCU conversion.
>

Cool! Please keep me in Cc.

Some conversions from rwlock to RCU are indeed complex,
don't know about this case.

Anyway, patch please. :)
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