2013/3/20 David Miller <da...@davemloft.net>: > From: Chris Metcalf <cmetc...@tilera.com> > Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 17:35:58 -0400 > >> Previously, if you did an "ifconfig down" or similar on one core, and >> the kernel had CONFIG_XFRM enabled, every core would be interrupted to >> check its percpu flow list for items that could be garbage collected. >> >> With this change, we generate a mask of cores that actually have any >> percpu items, and only interrupt those cores. When we are trying to >> isolate a set of cpus from interrupts, this is important to do. >> >> Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetc...@tilera.com> >> --- >> This change stands alone so could be taken into the net tree if >> desired, but it is most useful in the context of Frederic Weisbecker's >> linux-dynticks work. So it could be taken up through either tree, >> but it certainly needs sign-off from someone familiar with net/core/flow.c. > > I'm find with this going into the dynticks changes: > > Acked-by: David S. Miller <da...@davemloft.net>
At it looks pretty self-contained, can that perhaps go through the networking tree? Thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
