> -----Original Message----- > From: David Miller [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, 20 November, 2015 14:07 > To: Jon Maloy > Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]; > [email protected]; Richard Alpe; Ying Xue; > [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/8] tipc: some cleanups and improvements > > From: Jon Maloy <[email protected]> > 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.
Thank you for the feedback. My own benchmarking has already confirmed what you are stating. I am currently looking at how to convert it to RCU. ///jon -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
