netdev - Re: Killing sk->sk_callback

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Date:	Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:56:52 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	pmullaney@...ell.com
Cc:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au, GHaskins@...ell.com,
	chuck.lever@...cle.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Killing sk->sk_callback_lock

From: "Patrick Mullaney" <pmullaney@...ell.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:49:28 -0600

> I will give it a shot - I still have reservations about changing the
> socket structures - at first glance, it seems like sock and socket will
> have to change.

If you work against net-next-2.6 everything setting sk->sk_sleep is
compartmentalized into a small number of code locations.  So such work
ought to be trivial.
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