Mon, May 14, 2018 at 08:03:20PM CEST, j...@mojatatu.com wrote: >On 14/05/18 10:27 AM, Vlad Buslov wrote: >> Currently, all netlink protocol handlers for updating rules, actions and >> qdiscs are protected with single global rtnl lock which removes any >> possibility for parallelism. This patch set is a first step to remove >> rtnl lock dependency from TC rules update path. It updates act API to >> use atomic operations, rcu and spinlocks for fine-grained locking. It >> also extend API with functions that are needed to update existing >> actions for parallel execution. >> >> Outline of changes: >> - Change tc action to use atomic reference and bind counters, rcu >> mechanism for cookie update. >> - Extend action ops API with 'delete' function and 'unlocked' flag. >> - Change action API to work with actions in lockless manner based on >> primitives implemented in previous patches. >> - Extend action API with new functions necessary to implement unlocked >> actions. > >Please run all the tdc tests with these changes. This area has almost >good test coverage at this point. If you need help just ping me.
Oh, that reminds me. Vlad, please run also: tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/tc_* Thanks!
