netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] vxlan: release lock after each bucket in vxlan

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Date:	Wed, 27 May 2015 13:33:54 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	sorin@...urnze.ro
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, sdumitru@...acom.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] vxlan: release lock after each bucket in
 vxlan_cleanup

From: Sorin Dumitru <sorin@...urnze.ro>
Date: Tue, 26 May 2015 10:42:04 +0300

> We're seeing some softlockups from this function when there
> are a lot fdb entries on a vxlan device. Taking the lock for
> each bucket instead of the whole table is enough to fix that.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sorin Dumitru <sdumitru@...acom.com>

Applied, thanks.
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