From: Cong Wang <cw...@twopensource.com>
Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 10:44:26 -0700

> On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 12:42 AM, Sorin Dumitru <so...@returnze.ro> wrote:
>> We're seeing some softlockups from this function when there
>> are a lot fdb entries on a vxlan device. Taking the lock for
>> each bucket instead of the whole table is enough to fix that.
>>
> 
> Hmm, then the spinlock could be moved into each bucket, right?

Just because this one big one-time cleanup operation holds the lock
for a long time, doesn't justify making it more granular.
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