netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/8] tipc: some cleanups and improvements

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Date:	Fri, 20 Nov 2015 14:06:57 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jon.maloy@...csson.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, paul.gortmaker@...driver.com,
	parthasarathy.xx.bhuvaragan@...csson.com,
	richard.alpe@...csson.com, ying.xue@...driver.com,
	maloy@...jonn.com, tipc-discussion@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/8] tipc: some cleanups and improvements

From: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@...csson.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 14:30:38 -0500

> This series mostly contains cleanups and cosmetic code changes.
> The only real functional change is in #4 and #5, where we change the
> locking structure for nodes and links in order to permit full
> concurrency between links working in parallel on different interfaces.
> Since the groundwork for this has been done in previous commit series,
> this change constitutes only the final, small step to achieve that goal.

Series applied, thanks.

Generally speaking, rwlock usage really never buys you anything
significant.  Therefore in the long run I think a single spinlock plus
RCU is going to be much better for per-node locking in TIPC.

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