linux/include
Stephen Hemminger 942e4a2bd6 netfilter: revised locking for x_tables
The x_tables are organized with a table structure and a per-cpu copies
of the counters and rules. On older kernels there was a reader/writer 
lock per table which was a performance bottleneck. In 2.6.30-rc, this
was converted to use RCU and the counters/rules which solved the performance
problems for do_table but made replacing rules much slower because of
the necessary RCU grace period.

This version uses a per-cpu set of spinlocks and counters to allow to
table processing to proceed without the cache thrashing of a global
reader lock and keeps the same performance for table updates.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-04-28 22:36:33 -07:00
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acpi Merge branches 'release', 'APERF', 'ARAT', 'misc', 'kelvin', 'device-lock' and 'bjorn.notify' into release 2009-04-07 18:18:42 -04:00
asm-arm
asm-generic percpu: unbreak alpha percpu 2009-04-10 21:36:18 +02:00
asm-h8300
asm-m32r
crypto
drm
keys
linux netfilter: revised locking for x_tables 2009-04-28 22:36:33 -07:00
math-emu
media V4L/DVB (11381): ivtv/cx18: remove VIDIOC_INT_S_AUDIO_ROUTING debug support. 2009-04-06 21:44:28 -03:00
mtd
net Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kaber/nf-2.6 2009-04-16 16:32:29 -07:00
pcmcia
rdma
rxrpc
scsi PM/Hibernate: Wait for SCSI devices scan to complete during resume 2009-04-13 11:37:07 -07:00
sound
trace tracing/syscalls: use a dedicated file header 2009-04-09 05:43:32 +02:00
video tdfxfb: move I2C functionality into the tdfxfb 2009-04-07 08:31:08 -07:00
xen
Kbuild