netdev - Re: [PATCHv3 2/2] IPVS: Add genetlink interface implementation

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Date:	Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:22:33 +0200
From:	"Julius Volz" <juliusv@...gle.com>
To:	"Sven Wegener" <sven.wegener@...aler.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, lvs-devel@...r.kernel.org,
	horms@...ge.net.au, kaber@...sh.net, davem@...emloft.net,
	tgraf@...g.ch, vbusam@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 2/2] IPVS: Add genetlink interface implementation

On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 3:32 PM, Sven Wegener <sven.wegener@...aler.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Aug 2008, Julius Volz wrote:
>> Ok, fixed this up. The mutex is not completely moved down to make the
>> code look a bit nicer (nla_put_failure assumes locked mutex). There
>> should not be much concurrency anyways since this mutex only locks the
>> userspace interface, which is mainly used by ipvsadm.
>
> True, it was just a hint for an optimization. Looks good to me.
>
> Acked-by: Sven Wegener <sven.wegener@...aler.net>

Thanks for the help with this!

> Should we get this into 2.6.27? It's a new interface, currently unused, so
> the chance of breaking anything is marginal.

Yeah, it shouldn't break anything existing and that would be great!

Julius

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