Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 12 Apr 2009 10:31:08 -0700 | From | "Paul E. McKenney" <> | Subject | Re: iptables very slow after commit 784544739a25c30637397ace5489eeb6e15d7d49 |
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On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 09:34:27PM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote: > Paul E. McKenney writes: > > > If the generic implementation is needed only on !SMP systems, that > > could work. The architectures I would be worried about include > > powerpc and ia64, which I believe support 32-bit SMP builds. > > 32-bit powerpc doesn't have 64-bit atomic operations and does support > SMP. > > What about ARM? I thought they had 32-bit SMP these days as well.
Some of Steve Hemminger's recent suggestions in this thread seem to me to avoid this whole issue nicely. But we will see! ;-)
Thanx, Paul
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