netdev - Re: [PATCH ipvs-next v3 0/2] sched: Add cond_resched_rcu

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Message-Id: <20130522.013108.58504645261021804.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 22 May 2013 01:31:08 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	peterz@...radead.org
Cc:	horms@...ge.net.au, eric.dumazet@...il.com, ja@....bg,
	mingo@...hat.com, paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	lvs-devel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	pablo@...filter.org, dipankar@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH ipvs-next v3 0/2] sched: Add cond_resched_rcu_lock()
 helper

From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 09:54:38 +0200

> On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 02:50:30PM +0900, Simon Horman wrote:
>> Add a helper that for use in loops which read data protected by RCU and
>> may have a large number of iterations.  Such an example is dumping the list
>> of connections known to IPVS: ip_vs_conn_array() and ip_vs_conn_seq_next().
>> 
>> This series also updates IPVS to use the helper.
>> 
>> Simon Horman (2):
>>   sched: add cond_resched_rcu() helper
>>   ipvs: use cond_resched_rcu() helper when walking connections
>> 
>>  include/linux/sched.h           |  9 +++++++++
>>  net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_conn.c | 23 ++++++++---------------
>>  2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
> 
> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
> 
> How do you want to go about merging this? Do you want to route it
> through the net tree or through -tip?

I think we can have Pablo merge it into his netfilter tree.
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