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Ying Xue says:

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tipc: convert name table read-write lock to RCU

Now TIPC name table is statically allocated and is protected with a
Read-Write lock. To enhance the performance of TIPC name table lookup,
we are going to involve RCU lock to protect the name table. As a
consequence, it becomes lockless to concurrently look up name table on
read side. However, before the conversion can be successfully made,
the following two things must be first done:

- change allocation way of name table from static to dynamic
- fix several incorrect locking policy issues
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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David S. Miller 2014-12-08 20:40:03 -05:00

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include/linux/rculist.h

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net/tipc/name_distr.c

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net/tipc/name_table.c

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net/tipc/name_table.h

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net/tipc/subscr.c

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