netdev - Re: [PATCH 3/3] af_key: locking change

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Date:	Fri, 19 Feb 2010 21:53:14 -0800
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@...e.cz>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Jiri Pirko <jpirko@...hat.com>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
	Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@...erus.ca>,
	Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] af_key: locking change

On Sat, 20 Feb 2010 05:07:30 +0100
Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:

> Le vendredi 19 février 2010 à 13:59 -0800, Stephen Hemminger a écrit :
> > pièce jointe document texte brut (pfkey-rcu.patch)
> > Get rid of custom locking that was using wait queue, lock, and atomic
> > to basically build a queued mutex.  Use RCU for read side.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
> 
> Excellent
> 
> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
> 
> I dont know why you used synchronize_sched() instead of
> synchronize_rcu().

I'll go back to synchronize_rcu.

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