Mark Tomlinson <mark.tomlin...@alliedtelesis.co.nz> wrote: > This reverts commit 443d6e86f821a165fae3fc3fc13086d27ac140b1. > > This (and the following) patch basically re-implemented the RCU > mechanisms of patch 784544739a25. That patch was replaced because of the > performance problems that it created when replacing tables. Now, we have > the same issue: the call to synchronize_rcu() makes replacing tables > slower by as much as an order of magnitude. > > See https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/151796/ for why using RCU is > not a good idea.
Please don't add links for the rationale.
