netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: Make synchronize_net() be expedited only when it's really need

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Date:   Tue, 23 Jan 2018 20:43:16 +0300
From:   Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@...tuozzo.com>
To:     Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Cc:     netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>,
        Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>,
        Xin Long <lucien.xin@...il.com>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        mschiffer@...verse-factory.net, jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com,
        Vladislav Yasevich <vyasevich@...il.com>,
        Jiri Benc <jbenc@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Make synchronize_net() be expedited only when it's
 really need

On 23.01.2018 20:34, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Tue, 2018-01-23 at 20:22 +0300, Kirill Tkhai wrote:
>>
>> Eric, I took your advice about net-next from your the first message and
>> agreed in my answer on it. Strange, you've repeated this already 3 times
>> though I have no objections.
> 
> That was absolutely not clear to me.
> 
> Sorry for this.
> 
> Next time, make sure to provide proper tag in your patch submission,
> as stated in Documentation/networking/netdev-FAQ.txt

Thanks for pointing this. Great that netdev tree has clear and understandable rules.
Though I've read this article before I sent the patch I was doubt which tag would be
better. After your explanation I became sure that [net-next] is true.

Thanks,
Kirill