From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:13:51 -0700 > This is an alternative version of ip/ip6/arp tables locking using > per-cpu locks. This avoids the overhead of synchronize_net() during > update but still removes the expensive rwlock in earlier versions. > > The idea for this came from an earlier version done by Eric Dumazet. > Locking is done per-cpu, the fast path locks on the current cpu > and updates counters. The slow case involves acquiring the locks on > all cpu's. > > The mutex that was added for 2.6.30 in xt_table is unnecessary since > there already is a mutex for xt[af].mutex that is held. > > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxxxx> Things seem to be winding down, good. :-) I'll let Patrick McHardy merge this to me with his other pending netfilter fixes. Thanks! -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
