On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 16:46:40 -0700, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > If you go for it, prepare for talking to netdev@, and they will ask > > about taking and dropping the spinlock at every iteration when > > traversing. They are very sensitive to performance. > > Are they really doing notifier callbacks on fast network paths? Ugh... Alan found 22 other instances, so presumably he knows the answer. All I know is that someone replaced a spinlock with an rwlock. Might be just idiocy, or perhaps a scalability issue. -- Pete ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _______________________________________________ [email protected] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
