[ovs-dev] [PATCH net-next v3 2/2] openvswitch: Use parallel_ops genl.

[David Miller]

From: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar at nicira.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 10:48:48 -0700

> OVS locking was recently changed to have private OVS lock which
> simplified overall locking.  Therefore there is no need to have
> another global genl lock to protect OVS data structures.  Following
> patch uses of parallel_ops genl family for OVS.  This also allows
> more granual OVS locking using ovs_mutex for protecting OVS data
> structures, which gives more concurrencey.  E.g multiple genl
> operations OVS_PACKET_CMD_EXECUTE can run in parallel, etc.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar at nicira.com>

Applied.