netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net: nexthop: reduce rcu synchronizations when replacing resilient groups

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Message-Id: <163827421070.23105.15957891178793599366.git-patchwork-notify@kernel.org>
Date:   Tue, 30 Nov 2021 12:10:10 +0000
From:   patchwork-bot+netdevbpf@...nel.org
To:     Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@...ckwall.org>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net, kuba@...nel.org,
        dsahern@...il.com, nikolay@...dia.com, idosch@...sch.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: nexthop: reduce rcu synchronizations when
 replacing resilient groups

Hello:

This patch was applied to netdev/net-next.git (master)
by David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>:

On Mon, 29 Nov 2021 14:09:24 +0200 you wrote:
> From: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...dia.com>
> 
> We can optimize resilient nexthop group replaces by reducing the number of
> synchronize_net calls. After commit 1005f19b9357 ("net: nexthop: release
> IPv6 per-cpu dsts when replacing a nexthop group") we always do a
> synchronize_net because we must ensure no new dsts can be created for the
> replaced group's removed nexthops, but we already did that when replacing
> resilient groups, so if we always call synchronize_net after any group
> type replacement we'll take care of both cases and reduce synchronize_net
> calls for resilient groups.
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - [net-next] net: nexthop: reduce rcu synchronizations when replacing resilient groups
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/7709efa62c4f

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