From: Robert Olsson <Robert.Olsson@data.slu.se> Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 12:58:31 +0200 And later GC have to remove all enties with spin_lock_bh hold (no packet processing runs). I see packet drops exactly when GC runs. Tuning GC might help but it's something to observe. Please note, in 2.5.x, holding of this lock on one cpu does not prevent packet processing (even for routes on same hash chain) on another cpu because we use RCU there. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html