netdev - Re: [PATCH 00/10] netdev: get rid of read_lock(&dev_base

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Message-ID: <4AF9AE66.3010303@gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:18:14 +0100
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
CC:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/10] netdev: get rid of read_lock(&dev_base_lock) usages

Stephen Hemminger a écrit :
> The goal is to eliminate dev_base_lock completely, and just use RCU
> and rtnl_mutex for network devices. This series gets rid of the many
> of the users of dev_base_lock just for reading.
> 

Nice, but I was doing all this work Stephen... maybe I am too slow ?

I believe you missed one of my patch (but David is traveling)

[PATCH net-next-2.6] ipv6: speedup inet6_dump_ifinfo()

This conflicts with your :

[PATCH 08/10] ipv6: use RCU to walk list of network devices

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