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

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Date:	Wed, 27 May 2015 14:31:30 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	cwang@...pensource.com
Cc:	sorin@...urnze.ro, netdev@...r.kernel.org, sdumitru@...acom.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] vxlan: release lock after each bucket in
 vxlan_cleanup

From: Cong Wang <cwang@...pensource.com>
Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 10:44:26 -0700

> 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?

Just because this one big one-time cleanup operation holds the lock
for a long time, doesn't justify making it more granular.
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