Re: [PATCH NET-PREV 00/51] Kill rtnl_lock using fine-grained nd_lock

From: Jakub Kicinski
Date: Tue Mar 25 2025 - 07:15:35 EST


On Sat, 22 Mar 2025 17:37:41 +0300 Kirill Tkhai wrote:
> I mostly write this mostly a few years ago, more or less recently
> I rebased the patches on kernel around 6.11 (there should not
> be many conflicts on that version). Currenly I have no plans
> to complete this.
>
> If anyone wants to continue, this person can take this patchset
> and done the work.

Was there a pain point you were trying to address, or was rtnl_lock
just an interesting challenge? Paolo mentioned trying to convert veth
to instance locking, I guess he may need to reach for similar solutions.