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Message-Id: <20150106.171941.296781199194329785.davem@davemloft.net>
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 17:19:41 -0500 (EST)
From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To: stephen@...workplumber.org
Cc: tgraf@...g.ch, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, herbert@...dor.apana.org.au,
paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, edumazet@...gle.com,
john.r.fastabend@...el.com, josh@...htriplett.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] netlink: get rid of nl_table_lock
From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2015 11:02:11 -0800
> As a follow on to Thomas's patch I think this would complete the
> transistion to RCU for netlink.
> Compile tested only.
>
> This patch gets rid of the reader/writer nl_table_lock and replaces it
> with exclusively using RCU for reading, and a mutex for writing.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
FWIW, this approach looks fine to me.
Thomas can you review this?
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