netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: remove rcu locking from fib_rules

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Message-Id: <20100310.073518.54055177.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:35:18 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: remove rcu locking from fib_rules_event()

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:03:38 +0100

> We hold RTNL at this point and dont use RCU variants of list traversals,
> we dont need rcu_read_lock()/rcu_read_unlock()
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>

I'll apply this, but to my net-next-2.6 tree once I open that
up.
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