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Jon Maloy says: ==================== tipc: clean up media and bearer layer This commit series aims at facilitating future changes to the locking policy around nodes, links and bearers. Currently, we have a big read/write lock (net_lock) that is used for serializing all changes to the node, link and bearer lists, as well as to their mutual pointers and references. But, in order to allow for concurrent access to the contents of these structures, net_lock is only used in read mode by the data path code, and hence a finer granular locking policy must be applied inside the scope of net_lock: a spinlock (node_lock) for each node structure, and another one (bearer_lock) for protection of bearer structures. This locking policy has proved hard to maintain. We have several times encountered contention problems between node_lock and bearer_lock, and with the advent of the RCU locking mechanism we feel it is anyway obsolete and ripe for improvements. We now plan to replace net_lock with an RCU lock, as well as getting rid of bearer_lock altogether. This will both reduce data path overhead and make the code more manageable, while reducing the risk of future lock contention problems. Prior to these changes, we need to do some necessary cleanup and code consolidation. This is what we do with this commit series, before we finally remove bearer_lock. In a later series we will replace net_lock with an RCU lock. v2: - Re-inserted a removed kerneldoc entry in commit#5, based on feedback from D. Miller. ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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