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Date:	Tue, 28 May 2013 11:03:05 +0300
From:	Eliezer Tamir <eliezer.tamir@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <erdnetdev@...il.com>
CC:	Dave Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>,
	Don Skidmore <donald.c.skidmore@...el.com>,
	e1000-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, HPA <hpa@...or.com>,
	Eilon Greenstien <eilong@...adcom.com>,
	Or Gerlitz <or.gerlitz@...il.com>,
	Alex Rosenbaum <alexr@...lanox.com>,
	Eliezer Tamir <eliezer@...ir.org.il>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 net-next 1/5] net: add napi_id and hash

On 28/05/2013 03:28, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-05-27 at 10:44 +0300, Eliezer Tamir wrote:
>> +extern void napi_hash_add(struct napi_struct *napi);
>> +
>> +/**
>> + *	napi_hash_del - remove a NAPI from blobal table
>
> global

Thank you
(my typing is almost as bad as my spelling, please don't tell my mom)

>> @@ -166,6 +167,10 @@ static struct list_head offload_base __read_mostly;
>>   DEFINE_RWLOCK(dev_base_lock);
>>   EXPORT_SYMBOL(dev_base_lock);
>>
>> +atomic_t napi_gen_id;
>
> Not sure we need an atomic, we are protected by RTNL anyway.

With an atomic we don't need the RTNL in any of the napi_id functions.
One less thing to worry about when we try to remove the RTNL.

-Eliezer
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