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Date:	Mon, 14 Mar 2011 18:17:56 +0100
From:	Kurt Van Dijck <kurt.van.dijck@....be>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	socketcan-core@...ts.berlios.de, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC v3 3/6] can: make struct proto const

On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 05:42:23PM +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Le lundi 14 mars 2011 à 16:02 +0100, Kurt Van Dijck a écrit :
> 
> > I see your point.
> > The reason I modified this was, as described, checkpatch.pl was complaining.
> > Anyway, this sequence was protected by a spinlock 'proto_tab_lock'.
> > I don't think it was a race.
> > 
> > Did I miss something?
> 
> As soon as proto_tab[proto] = cp; is done, another thread on another cpu
> can read the pointer and follow it.
> 
> Hmm, I missed can_create() also uses the spinlock protection, so you're
> probably right.
> 
> It seems a bit overkill :(
> phonet uses RCU for example.
I'll keep that in mind.
Switching CAN protos to RCU is far beyond to goal of this patch :-)

Thanks,
Kurt
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