netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next RFC] Generic XDP

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Date:   Sun, 09 Apr 2017 09:04:07 +0200
From:   Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     xdp-newbies@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next RFC] Generic XDP

On Sun, 2017-04-09 at 08:25 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> That would also let you use rcu_assign_pointer() which seems like the
> right thing to do here, along with marking the xdp_prog pointer as
> __rcu? That'd also let you use rcu_dereference() instead of
> READ_ONCE() which seems like the better annotation?

Looks like drivers do it exactly this way too though.

What I forgot: I guess we could make drivers use dev->xdp_prog after
this, instead of having their own?

johannes