Two quick questions.
- What motivates this work? Are you seeing lots of
parallel reads on proc?
- Why not rcu? Additions and removal of proc generic
files is very rare. Conversion to rcu for reads should
perform better and not take much more work.
Eric
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- What motivates this work? Are you seeing lots of
parallel reads on proc?
- Why not rcu? Additions and removal of proc generic
files is very rare. Conversion to rcu for reads should
perform better and not take much more work.
Eric
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