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author | Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> | 2010-10-06 17:49:21 -0700 |
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committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2010-10-06 18:01:33 -0700 |
commit | 767e97e1e0db0d0f3152cd2f3bd3403596aedbad (patch) | |
tree | cda6089e75f98fc3c9812993cf790fccac98b67a /MAINTAINERS | |
parent | 546add79468183f266c75c632c96e4b0029e0d96 (diff) |
neigh: RCU conversion of struct neighbour
This is the second step for neighbour RCU conversion.
(first was commit d6bf7817 : RCU conversion of neigh hash table)
neigh_lookup() becomes lockless, but still take a reference on found
neighbour. (no more read_lock()/read_unlock() on tbl->lock)
struct neighbour gets an additional rcu_head field and is freed after an
RCU grace period.
Future work would need to eventually not take a reference on neighbour
for temporary dst (DST_NOCACHE), but this would need dst->_neighbour to
use a noref bit like we did for skb->_dst.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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