netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] ipv6: use RCU to walk list of network devices

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Message-Id: <20091113.203921.79518467.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:39:21 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	shemminger@...tta.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] ipv6: use RCU to walk list of network
 devices

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 04:34:30 +0100

> [PATCH net-next-2.6] ipv6: use RCU to walk list of network devices
> 
> No longer need read_lock(&dev_base_lock), use RCU instead.
> We also can avoid taking references on inet6_dev structs.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>

Applied.
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