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Subject: Re: Kernel rwlock design, Multicore and IGMP
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Le lundi 15 novembre 2010 à 19:18 +0800, Cypher Wu a écrit :
> In that post I want to confirm another thing: if we join/leave on
> different cores that every call will start the timer for IGMP message
> using the same in_dev->mc_list, could that be optimized?
> 

Which timer exactly ? Is it a real scalability problem ?

I believe RTNL would be the blocking point actually...