netdev - Re: [PATCH] NET : convert IP route cache garbage colleciton from softirq processing to a workqueue

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Message-Id: <20070912.041018.35029512.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 12 Sep 2007 04:10:18 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	hch@...radead.org
Cc:	dada1@...mosbay.com, herbert@...dor.apana.org.au,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] NET : convert IP route cache garbage colleciton from
 softirq processing to a workqueue

From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 11:00:54 +0100

> Can you please et rid of this useless struct?  It just complicates
> the code and means we can't use the proper DEFINE_SPINLOCK initializer.

As long as the linker can move global variables around we need
to do things like this to keep objects together when that's
what we want.

So it's not really useless, but perhaps deserves a comment.
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