From 2ee22a90c7afac265bb6f7abea610b938195e2b8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Dumazet Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2015 05:18:09 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] net_sched: act_mirred: remove spinlock in fast path Like act_gact, act_mirred can be lockless in packet processing 1) Use percpu stats 2) update lastuse only every clock tick to avoid false sharing 3) use rcu to protect tcfm_dev 4) Remove spinlock usage, as it is no longer needed. Next step : add multi queue capability to ifb device Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Cc: Alexei Starovoitov Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim Cc: John Fastabend Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- Reading git-format-patch failed