netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] bridge: remove a redundant synchronize

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Date:	Tue, 2 Apr 2013 17:58:22 +0200
From:	Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@...hat.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] bridge: remove a redundant synchronize_net()

On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 08:45:00AM -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
>
>commit 00cfec37484761 (net: add a synchronize_net() in
>netdev_rx_handler_unregister())
>allows us to remove the synchronized_net() call from del_nbp()
>
>Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
>Cc: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@...hat.com>
>Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
>---
> net/bridge/br_if.c |    1 -
> 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
>diff --git a/net/bridge/br_if.c b/net/bridge/br_if.c
>index ef1b914..f17fcb3 100644
>--- a/net/bridge/br_if.c
>+++ b/net/bridge/br_if.c
>@@ -148,7 +148,6 @@ static void del_nbp(struct net_bridge_port *p)
> 	dev->priv_flags &= ~IFF_BRIDGE_PORT;
>
> 	netdev_rx_handler_unregister(dev);
>-	synchronize_net();
>
> 	netdev_upper_dev_unlink(dev, br->dev);
>
>
>

Thanks, didn't see that when fixing bonding.

Acked-by: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@...hat.com>
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