netdev - Re: [PATCH net 6/9] net/mlx4_core: Use RCU to perform radix tree lookup for SRQ

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Date:   Thu, 08 Sep 2016 13:36:25 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     tariqt@...lanox.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, eranbe@...lanox.com, leonro@...lanox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 6/9] net/mlx4_core: Use RCU to perform radix tree
 lookup for SRQ

From: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...lanox.com>
Date: Thu,  8 Sep 2016 11:51:58 +0300

> From: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...lanox.com>
> 
> Radix tree lookup can be performed without locking.
> 
> Fixes: 225c7b1feef1 ("IB/mlx4: Add a driver Mellanox ConnectX InfiniBand adapters")
> Suggested-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@...mberg.me>
> Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...lanox.com>
> Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...lanox.com>

Unless this fixes a bug, it isn't appropriate for 'net'.

If it does fix a bug, you have to explain what that bug is and
how this fixes it.