Re: Improving use of rt_refcnt

[David Young <dyoung%pobox.com@localhost>]

On Sat, Jul 04, 2015 at 09:52:56PM +0900, Ryota Ozaki wrote:
> I'm trying to improve use of rt_refcnt: reducing
> abuse of it, e.g., rt_refcnt++/rt_refcnt-- outside
> route.c and extending it to treat referencing
> during packet processing (IOW, references from
> local variables) -- currently it handles only
> references between routes. The latter is needed for
> MP-safe networking.

Do you propose to increase/decrease rt_refcnt in the packet processing
path, using atomic instructions?

Dave

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