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Message-ID: <CAHA+R7Md7vGJj_6e8P7iB3j-gaax6H37OQ_9N26KUwjgbWHz_g@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 27 May 2015 10:44:26 -0700
From:	Cong Wang <cwang@...pensource.com>
To:	Sorin Dumitru <sorin@...urnze.ro>
Cc:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Sorin Dumitru <sdumitru@...acom.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] vxlan: release lock after each bucket in vxlan_cleanup

On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 12:42 AM, Sorin Dumitru <sorin@...urnze.ro> wrote:
> 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.
>

Hmm, then the spinlock could be moved into each bucket, right?
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