From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweis...@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 17:37:04 +0100
> 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? Fair enough, applied to net-next, 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/
