netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 2/4] xen-netback: add control protocol implementation

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Date:	Sat, 07 May 2016 15:09:21 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	paul.durrant@...rix.com
Cc:	xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	wei.liu2@...rix.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/4] xen-netback: add control protocol
 implementation

From: Paul Durrant <paul.durrant@...rix.com>
Date: Thu, 5 May 2016 12:19:28 +0100

> +struct xenvif_hash_cache {
> +	rwlock_t lock;

You really don't want to lock on every SKB hash computation like
this, turn this into a spin lock for locking the write side and
use RCU locking for lookup and usage.

THanks.