Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 8 Aug 2004 00:45:37 +0530 | From | Dipankar Sarma <> | Subject | RCU : various patches [0/5] |
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This is a series of patches that are currently in my tree. These apply on 2.6.8-rc3-mm1 (on top the earlier 3 patches in -mm). Of these, the first one is a cleanup to avoid percpu data address calculations and also prepration for call_rcu_bh(). The call-rcu-bh patches introduce a separate RCU mechanism for softirq handlers with handler completion as another quiescent state and use it in route cache. This avoids the dst cache overflow problems Robert Olsson was seeing during his router DoS testing. All this work happened after a long private email discussion some months ago involving Alexey, Robert, Dave Miller and some of us. I am publishing the work so that people can test it. It would be nice to give the entire stack a spin in -mm.
The remaining two patches are from Paul that documents RCU apis and hides smp_read_barrier_depends() using a simple macro - rcu_dereference().
I have tested the call-rcu-bh stuff with pktgen and saw no route cache overflows. The complete stack is also sanity tested.
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