netdev - Re: [PATCH] netpoll: use non-BH variant of RCU

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Date:	Sat, 14 Aug 2010 23:50:33 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au
Cc:	paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, linville@...driver.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...e.hu, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netpoll: use non-BH variant of RCU

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 13:51:57 -0400

> On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 09:29:12AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
>> But all in all, mightn't it be easier to remove the checks from
>> _local_bh_enable(), and then just use rcu_read_lock_bh()?  Have those
>> checks really been that helpful in finding bugs?  ;-)
> 
> You are right.  It would be much simpler to simply have it not
> warn.

For now I'm going to assume that this is how the issue will be
addressed.
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