Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Le vendredi 01 juillet 2011 à 09:49 +0200, Florian Westphal a écrit : > > But I guess even having to grab a refcount would be > > a huge win as opposed to holding on to the nfnl mutex... > > > > We'd also need to audit all ->call implementations; most > > of them assume the nfnl_mutex is being hold. > > We can do another way : Introduce a new ->call_rcu() implementation > and convert places where we prefer not holding nfnf_mutex. > If/when all places are converted, remove the ->call() field for good. Sounds reasonable to me. Both patches look great, thanks a lot for doing this Eric! -- 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
