Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH net-next v3 1/2] genl: Allow concurrent genl callbacks.

2013-04-24 Thread David Miller
From: Pravin B Shelar Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 10:48:30 -0700 > All genl callbacks are serialized by genl-mutex. This can become > bottleneck in multi threaded case. > Following patch adds an parameter to genl_family so that a > particular family can get concurrent netlink callback without > genl_l

[ovs-dev] [PATCH net-next v3 1/2] genl: Allow concurrent genl callbacks.

2013-04-23 Thread Pravin B Shelar
All genl callbacks are serialized by genl-mutex. This can become bottleneck in multi threaded case. Following patch adds an parameter to genl_family so that a particular family can get concurrent netlink callback without genl_lock held. New rw-sem is used to protect genl callback from genl family u