netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] ipv6: addrlabel: avoid dirtying ip6addrlbl

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Date:   Mon, 09 Oct 2017 10:47:44 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     kafai@...com
Cc:     edumazet@...gle.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        eric.dumazet@...il.com, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] ipv6: addrlabel: avoid dirtying
 ip6addrlbl_entry

From: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2017 10:44:17 -0700

> On Mon, Oct 09, 2017 at 04:52:23PM +0000, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>> The refcount on ip6addrlbl_entry is only used to make sure ip6addrlbl_entry
>> does not disappear while ip6addrlbl_get() is allocating an skb.
>> 
>> We can instead allocate skb first, then use RCU, so that we no longer need
>> to refcount these structures.
> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>

Series applied, thanks everyone.