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Date:	Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:43:21 +0100
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
CC:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Christine Caulfield <christine.caulfield@...glemail.com>,
	Hannes Eder <hannes@...neseder.net>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
	Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@...hat.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-decnet-users@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/10] decnet: use RCU to find network devices

Stephen Hemminger a écrit :
> When showing device statistics use RCU rather than read_lock(&dev_base_lock)
> Compile tested only.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
> 
> --- a/net/decnet/dn_dev.c	2009-11-10 09:30:55.557376454 -0800
> +++ b/net/decnet/dn_dev.c	2009-11-10 09:40:03.847005394 -0800
> @@ -856,9 +856,7 @@ int dn_dev_bind_default(__le16 *addr)
>  	dev = dn_dev_get_default();
>  last_chance:
>  	if (dev) {
> -		read_lock(&dev_base_lock);
>  		rv = dn_dev_get_first(dev, addr);
> -		read_unlock(&dev_base_lock);
>  		dev_put(dev);
>  		if (rv == 0 || dev == init_net.loopback_dev)
>  			return rv;
> @@ -1323,18 +1321,18 @@ static inline int is_dn_dev(struct net_d


I dont understand this part. Why previous locking can be avoided ?
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