Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 4/4] [Net] Support accelerated network plugin modules

[Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 11:59:43 -0400
"Zhu Han" <schumi.han@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi, Kieran,
> 
> I'm just wonder why you try to acquire the lock and increase the
> hooks_usecount each time when you use the hook routine. Is there any
> generic ways to synchronze the code path using hook routines and
> netfront_accelerator_unloaded, considering you can synchronize the
> 

Learn to use RCU for this. It would reduce the lock overhead.

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