On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 08:47:02AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Thu, 23 Apr 2009, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > > > Hmmm... I need to ask Jeff Chua what HZ he was running with. Because if > > there was some read-side critical section soaking up 30 milliseconds, > > all that hammering will do is slow things down... > > The original bug report comes from simply bootup: > > "I'm loading all the firewall rules during boot-up and this 6 secs > slowness is really not very nice to wait for." > > IOW, the problematic case likely effectively has _nothing_ else going on. > Sure, there might be some parallelism (the bootup scripts are getting > better for that), but hopefully not 6 seconds worth, and not likely any > complex critical sections. Sounds good to me! ;-) Thanx, Paul -- 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
