Four years ago, Patrick made a change to hold rtnl mutex during netlink dump callbacks. I believe it was a wrong move. This slows down concurrent dumps, making good old /proc/net/ files faster than rtnetlink in some situations. This occurred to me because one "ip link show dev ..." was _very_ slow on a workload adding/removing network devices in background. All dump callbacks are able to use RCU locking now, so this patch does roughly a revert of commits : |
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README | ||
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af_decnet.c | ||
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dn_fib.c | ||
dn_neigh.c | ||
dn_nsp_in.c | ||
dn_nsp_out.c | ||
dn_route.c | ||
dn_rules.c | ||
dn_table.c | ||
dn_timer.c | ||
sysctl_net_decnet.c |
README
Linux DECnet Project ====================== The documentation for this kernel subsystem is available in the Documentation/networking subdirectory of this distribution and also on line at http://www.chygwyn.com/DECnet/ Steve Whitehouse <SteveW@ACM.org>