netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 00/17] net: snmp: update SNMP methods

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Date:	Wed, 27 Apr 2016 22:48:46 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	edumazet@...gle.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, eric.dumazet@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 00/17] net: snmp: update SNMP methods

From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 16:44:26 -0700

> In the old days (before linux-3.0), SNMP counters were duplicated,
> one set for user context, and anther one for BH context.
> 
> After commit 8f0ea0fe3a03 ("snmp: reduce percpu needs by 50%")
> we have a single copy, and what really matters is preemption being
> enabled or disabled, since we use this_cpu_inc() or __this_cpu_inc()
> respectively.
> 
> This patch series kills the obsolete STATS_USER() helpers,
> and rename all XXX_BH() helpers to __XXX() ones, to more
> closely match conventions used to update per cpu variables.
> 
> This is probably going to hurt maintainers job for a while,
> since cherry-picks will not be clean, but this had to be
> cleaned at one point. I am so sorry guys.

Looks good to me, series applied, thanks Eric.