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neighbour table lockless read

From:  Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
To:  David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject:  [RFC 0/7] neighbour table lockless read
Date:  Mon, 14 Aug 2006 14:20:04 -0700
Cc:  netdev@vger.kernel.org
Archive-link:  Article, Thread

This set of patches changes the neighbour table used by ARP and
IPV6 neighbour discovery to use RCU and seqlock's. This improves
performance by eliminated locked instructions in the common
case.

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