Re: [RFC PATCH 00/12] drop the qdisc lock for pfifo_fast/mq

2016-01-06 Thread Jamal Hadi Salim
Sorry for not being as responsive as i would like to be (theman calls and i have to go). This looks like a good (tc workshop) candidate discussion, if still active by netdev11 time. On 15-12-30 12:50 PM, John Fastabend wrote: Hi, This is a first take at removing the qdisc lock on the xmit path

[RFC PATCH 00/12] drop the qdisc lock for pfifo_fast/mq

2015-12-30 Thread John Fastabend
Hi, This is a first take at removing the qdisc lock on the xmit path where qdiscs actually have queues of skbs. The ingress qdisc which is already lockless was "easy" at least in the sense that we did not need any lock-free data structures to hold skbs. The series here is experimental at the mome