netdev - Re: netlink: Kill bogus lock_sock in netlink

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Date:	Fri, 15 May 2015 11:01:54 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...hat.com>
Cc:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au, tgraf@...g.ch, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	ying.xue@...driver.com
Subject: Re: netlink: Kill bogus lock_sock in netlink_insert

On Fri, 2015-05-15 at 12:49 -0400, David Miller wrote:
> From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
> Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 14:02:30 +0800
> 
> > On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 01:58:24PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> >> 
> >> This patch also removes a bogus socket lock introduced by that
> >> very same patch.
> > 
> > This bogus socket lock is still there in the current tree.
> > 
> > ---8<---
> > The commit c5adde9468b0714a051eac7f9666f23eb10b61f7 ("netlink:
> > eliminate nl_sk_hash_lock") added a lock_sock to netlink_insert
> > with no justifications whatsoever.
> > 
> > This patch kills it.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
> 
> Eric, does this improve your benchmark?

I don't think so, but I can test this in about one hour.




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