netdev - Re: [PATCH] netfilter: revised locking for x

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0904280954500.22156@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Tue, 28 Apr 2009 09:55:32 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca,
	mingo@...e.hu, dada1@...mosbay.com, zbr@...emap.net,
	peterz@...radead.org, jarkao2@...il.com, paulus@...ba.org,
	paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, kaber@...sh.net,
	jeff.chua.linux@...il.com, laijs@...fujitsu.com,
	jengelh@...ozas.de, r000n@...0n.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	benh@...nel.crashing.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netfilter: revised locking for x_tables



On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> Ack. 
> 
> It could do with the update from Eric about how non-current CPU writelocks 
> only require preemp-disable around get_counters() (and then the 
> local_bh_disable() only around the current-CPU case).

Btw, regardless, that's an incremental improvement, and does not negate 
the "Ack" part.

			Linus
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