Confused about rtnl routing mutex scalability

Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
Sat Sep 10 21:50:37 EDT 2016


On Wed, 07 Sep 2016 23:28:54 -0400, nick said:
> I am curious as it after reading the network code for a while it seems that to me
> at least the rtnl mutex lock is a bottleneck.

Given your proven inability to read and understand kernel code, nobody's going to
bother investigating unless you demonstrate other evidence that lock is a bottleneck,
such as actual benchmarks showing contention.

>  Is this just me or does this lock actually cause serious issues or can do so.

It's probably just you.
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