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Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 16:51:29 +0000 From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net> To: Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch> Cc: davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org, kernel@...r.kernel.org, herbert@...dor.apana.org.au, paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, edumazet@...gle.com, john.r.fastabend@...el.com, josh@...htriplett.org, netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/9] rhashtable: Per bucket locks & deferred expansion/shrinking On 16.01, Thomas Graf wrote: > On 01/16/15 at 04:32pm, Patrick McHardy wrote: > > If we have to block, the dumper if of course preferred. Taking the > > mutex should do fine I guess? > > That will work, it will also ensure that the walker doesn't see the > pre unzip state which would cause entries to be duplicated in the > walker. > > > I suppose walking both tables without any races would be rather > > complicated. > > Very interested if you can come up with something ;-) For now I'll stick to the mutex. Thanks! -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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