ACK [SRU][F:linux-bluefield][PATCH v2] netfilter: flowtable: Use rw sem as flow block lock

Krzysztof Kozlowski krzysztof.kozlowski at canonical.com
Thu Jun 3 09:07:10 UTC 2021


On 02/06/2021 22:57, Daniel Jurgens wrote:
> From: Paul Blakey <paulb at mellanox.com>
> 
> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1927251
> 
> Currently flow offload threads are synchronized by the flow block mutex.
> Use rw lock instead to increase flow insertion (read) concurrency.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paul Blakey <paulb at mellanox.com>
> Reviewed-by: Oz Shlomo <ozsh at mellanox.com>
> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo at netfilter.org>
> (backported from commit 422c032afcf57d5e8109a54912e22ffc53d99068)
> [danielj: Context in header file differed.]
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Jurgens <danielj at nvidia.com>
> 
> ---
> v2: Added reason for backport to commit message
> 


Acked-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski at canonical.com>

Best regards,
Krzysztof



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