netdev - Re: [PATCH 03/18] ipvs: zero percpu stats

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Date:	Thu, 10 Mar 2011 13:27:36 +0900
From:	Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	ja@....bg, eric.dumazet@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, netfilter@...r.kernel.org,
	lvs-devel@...r.kernel.org, hans@...illstrom.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/18] ipvs: zero percpu stats

On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 06:53:44PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> From: Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au>
> Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 10:34:42 +0900
> 
> > On Sun, Mar 06, 2011 at 02:18:35PM +0200, Julian Anastasov wrote:
> > 
> > [ snip ]
> > 
> >> 	Zero the new percpu stats because we copy from there.
> >> Use the stats spin lock to synchronize the percpu zeroing with
> >> the percpu reading, both in user context and not in a hot path.
> >> 
> >> Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@....bg>
> > 
> > Eric, do you have any thoughts on this?
> > It seems clean to me.
> 
> Eric is away until this weekend, so don't be alarmed by a
> late response :-)

Thanks, I'll wait longer :-)
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