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authorAllan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com>2008-04-15 00:22:02 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2008-04-15 00:22:02 -0700
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[TIPC]: Overhaul of socket locking logic
This patch modifies TIPC's socket code to follow the same approach used by other protocols. This change eliminates the need for a mutex in the TIPC-specific portion of the socket protocol data structure -- in its place, the standard Linux socket backlog queue and associated locking routines are utilized. These changes fix a long-standing receive queue bug on SMP systems, and also enable individual read and write threads to utilize a socket without unnecessarily interfering with each other. Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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