netdev - Re: pkt_sched: gen_estimator: more fuel for Jarek and Changli

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Date:	Wed, 9 Jun 2010 06:51:35 +0000
From:	Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...il.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	Changli Gao <xiaosuo@...il.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
Subject: Re: pkt_sched: gen_estimator: more fuel for Jarek and Changli

On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 08:13:17AM +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> 
> With un-modified kernel, I ran following scripts on my machine

Why not modified with your other patch quite obviously needed by
rateest?:

> [PATCH net-2.6] pkt_sched: gen_estimator: add a new lock
> 
> gen_kill_estimator() / gen_new_estimator() is not always called with
> RTNL held.

Btw, I agree with Changli that adding RTNL to rateest (if possible),
and doing the RTNL replacement later, seems more proper.

Jarek P.
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