Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755878AbZDUQiZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:38:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751272AbZDUQiH (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:38:07 -0400 Received: from e9.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.139]:57799 "EHLO e9.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753265AbZDUQiF (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:38:05 -0400 Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 09:37:58 -0700 From: "Paul E. McKenney" To: Eric Dumazet Cc: Stephen Hemminger , Paul Mackerras , Evgeniy Polyakov , David Miller , kaber@trash.net, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, jeff.chua.linux@gmail.com, mingo@elte.hu, laijs@cn.fujitsu.com, jengelh@medozas.de, r000n@r000n.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, benh@kernel.crashing.org, mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca Subject: Re: [PATCH] netfilter: use per-cpu recursive lock (v11) Message-ID: <20090421163758.GF6642@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reply-To: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com References: <20090417012812.GA25534@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20090418094001.GA2369@ioremap.net> <20090418141455.GA7082@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20090420103414.1b4c490f@nehalam> <49ECBE0A.7010303@cosmosbay.com> <18924.59347.375292.102385@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <20090420215827.GK6822@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <18924.64032.103954.171918@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <20090420160121.268a8226@nehalam> <49ED52B1.7050601@cosmosbay.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <49ED52B1.7050601@cosmosbay.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15+20070412 (2007-04-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 600 Lines: 17 On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 06:59:29AM +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote: [ . . . ] > Hopefully, next rcu_bh (or whatever name is used) will permit us > to switch back to pure RCU in 2.6.31 My excursion in to rcu_fgp can be thought of as a training exercise for doing this, though perhaps others are also working on an upgraded rcu_bh as well. Thanx, Paul -- 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/