Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262582AbVDPLZr (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Apr 2005 07:25:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262640AbVDPLZr (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Apr 2005 07:25:47 -0400 Received: from arnor.apana.org.au ([203.14.152.115]:64528 "EHLO arnor.apana.org.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262582AbVDPLZn (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Apr 2005 07:25:43 -0400 Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 21:23:29 +1000 To: Thomas Graf Cc: Steven Rostedt , hadi@cyberus.ca, netdev , Tarhon-Onu Victor , kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, devik@cdi.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Patrick McHardy , "David S. Miller" Subject: Re: ACPI/HT or Packet Scheduler BUG? Message-ID: <20050416112329.GA31847@gondor.apana.org.au> References: <1113601029.4294.80.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1113601446.17859.36.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1113602052.4294.89.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20050415225422.GF4114@postel.suug.ch> <20050416014906.GA3291@gondor.apana.org.au> <20050416110639.GI4114@postel.suug.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050416110639.GI4114@postel.suug.ch> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i From: Herbert Xu Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 834 Lines: 19 On Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 01:06:39PM +0200, Thomas Graf wrote: > > It's not completely useless, it speeds up the deletion classful > qdiscs having some depth. However, it's not worth the locking > troubles I guess. RCU is meant to optimise the common reader path. In this case that's the packet transmission code. Unfortunately it fails miserably when judged by that criterion. -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/