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


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