netdev - Re: [RTNETLINK 03/04]: Remove unnecessary locking in dump callbacks

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Message-Id: <20070416.170119.101870744.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 16 Apr 2007 17:01:19 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	kaber@...sh.net
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RTNETLINK 03/04]: Remove unnecessary locking in dump callbacks

From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 09:51:55 +0200 (MEST)

> [RTNETLINK]: Remove unnecessary locking in dump callbacks
> 
> Since we're now holding the rtnl during the entire dump operation, we can
> remove additional locking for rtnl protected data. This patch does that
> for all simple cases (dev_base_lock for dev_base walking, RCU protection
> for FIB rule dumping).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>

Applied, thanks.
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