netdev - Re: [PATCH] NET : inet_ehash_secret should be __read

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Date:	Tue, 27 Mar 2007 13:53:38 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	dada1@...mosbay.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] NET : inet_ehash_secret should be __read_mostly and
 set only once

From: Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 12:13:43 +0200

> Hi David
> 
> Please find this patch against net-2.6.22
> 
> Thank you
> 
> [PATCH] NET : inet_ehash_secret should be __read_mostly and set only once
> 
> There is a very tiny probability that build_ehash_secret() is called at the same time by different CPUS.
> 
> Also, using __read_mostly is a must for inet_ehash_secret
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>

Applied, but I left out this totally unrelated code formatting
change in your patch:

> @@ -684,7 +694,8 @@ int inet_sendmsg(struct kiocb *iocb, str
>  }
>  
>  
> -static ssize_t inet_sendpage(struct socket *sock, struct page *page, int offset, size_t size, int flags)
> +static ssize_t inet_sendpage(struct socket *sock, struct page *page, int offset,
> +	size_t size, int flags)
>  {
>  	struct sock *sk = sock->sk;
>  

Thanks!
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