On 16-07-13 11:19 PM, John Fastabend wrote:
> This patch adds a flag for queueing disciplines to indicate the stack
> does not need to use the qdisc lock to protect operations. This can
> be used to build lockless scheduling algorithms and improving
> performance.
>
> The flag is checked in the tx
This patch adds a flag for queueing disciplines to indicate the stack
does not need to use the qdisc lock to protect operations. This can
be used to build lockless scheduling algorithms and improving
performance.
The flag is checked in the tx path and the qdisc lock is only taken
if it is not set.
