1) The document discusses locking in the Linux traffic control (TC) subsystem and ways it could be improved.
2) Currently there is an RTNL lock on the slow path and RCU read lock on the fast path, along with spinlocks to synchronize enqueue and dequeue operations.
3) The author proposes ideas to reduce or eliminate locking in various parts of the TC layer like making the action layer and qdiscs fully lockless, breaking locks down to a more granular level, and changing how traffic queues are mapped.