[Bridge] Re: [PATCH] (3/4) bridge: get rid of threaded link for forwarding timeout

[David S. Miller]

On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 15:44:34 -0800
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger at osdl.org> wrote:

> For 2.6, I changed the bridge forwarding table timeout code to keep
> a threaded list of in order entries. Well, it turns out that this is
> a performance hit because we end up constantly moving entries around
> in the list.  Later patch changes this to be in place update with RCU.
> 
> This version just uses a 100ms garbage collection timer.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger at osdl.org>

Applied, thanks.