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Commit 66813d4d authored by David S. Miller's avatar David S. Miller
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Merge branch 'tipc-next'



Ying Xue says:

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tipc: convert name table read-write lock to RCU

Now TIPC name table is statically allocated and is protected with a
Read-Write lock. To enhance the performance of TIPC name table lookup,
we are going to involve RCU lock to protect the name table. As a
consequence, it becomes lockless to concurrently look up name table on
read side. However, before the conversion can be successfully made,
the following two things must be first done:

- change allocation way of name table from static to dynamic
- fix several incorrect locking policy issues
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Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parents 60c04aec 97ede29e
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