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Re: Route cache performance under stress

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Subject: Re: Route cache performance under stress
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 18:23:38 -0700 (PDT)
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   From: Ralph Doncaster <ralph@xxxxxxxxx>
   Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 21:17:28 -0400 (EDT)

   Aren't the read_lock_irqsave and restore expensive?

If x86 has an inefficient implementation, well... :-)

This can be done without locks, nobody has done the x86 implementation
of that that's all.  I think the x86_64 folks did a lockless version,
I know I did for sparc64 :)


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