netdev - Re: Kernel rwlock design, Multicore and IGMP

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Date:	Mon, 15 Nov 2010 12:31:12 +0100
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Cypher Wu <cypher.w@...il.com>
Cc:	Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...era.com>,
	Américo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Kernel rwlock design, Multicore and IGMP

Le lundi 15 novembre 2010 à 19:18 +0800, Cypher Wu a écrit :
> In that post I want to confirm another thing: if we join/leave on
> different cores that every call will start the timer for IGMP message
> using the same in_dev->mc_list, could that be optimized?
> 

Which timer exactly ? Is it a real scalability problem ?

I believe RTNL would be the blocking point actually...



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