From: Eric Dumazet <redacted>
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:28:33 +0200

Eric Dumazet a écrit :

quoted

It seems recursion field from "struct ip_tunnel" is not anymore needed.
recursion prevention is done at the upper level (in dev_queue_xmit()),
since we use HARD_TX_LOCK protection for tunnels.

This avoids a cache line ping pong on "struct ip_tunnel" : This structure
should be now mostly read on xmit and receive paths.

Oops I forgot ipv6 tunnels, silly me, here is an updated version.

Thanks

[PATCH] tunnel: eliminate recursion field

It seems recursion field from "struct ip_tunnel" is not anymore needed.
recursion prevention is done at the upper level (in dev_queue_xmit()),
since we use HARD_TX_LOCK protection for tunnels.

This avoids a cache line ping pong on "struct ip_tunnel" : This structure
should be now mostly read on xmit and receive paths.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <redacted>

Applied.