netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2 1/3] netfilter: flowtable: Use rw sem as flow block lock

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Message-ID: <20200327172250.q5c6c3xz72hgwteu@salvia>
Date:   Fri, 27 Mar 2020 18:22:50 +0100
From:   Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
To:     Paul Blakey <paulb@...lanox.com>
Cc:     Oz Shlomo <ozsh@...lanox.com>, Majd Dibbiny <majd@...lanox.com>,
        Roi Dayan <roid@...lanox.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...lanox.com>,
        netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 1/3] netfilter: flowtable: Use rw sem as flow
 block lock

On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 12:12:29PM +0300, Paul Blakey wrote:
> Currently flow offload threads are synchronized by the flow block mutex.
> Use rw lock instead to increase flow insertion (read) concurrency.

Applied to nf-next, thanks.