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Message-ID: <474f08fed4a406e929af3d4142d3e185@chewa.net>
Date:	Mon, 07 Jun 2010 15:43:16 +0200
From:	Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi@...lab.net>
To:	Jiri Pirko <jpirko@...hat.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] phonet: use call_rcu for phonet device free


On Mon, 7 Jun 2010 15:27:39 +0200, Jiri Pirko <jpirko@...hat.com> wrote:
> Use call_rcu rather than synchronize_rcu.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@...hat.com>

This looks fine to me, but what is the goal here? The RCU documentation
seems to imply that synchronize_rcu() is preferable over call_rcu() when at
all possible.

-- 
Rémi Denis-Courmont
http://www.remlab.net
http://fi.linkedin.com/in/remidenis

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