netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] tg3: 64bits stats

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Message-ID: <1278356386.2466.3.camel@edumazet-laptop>
Date:	Mon, 05 Jul 2010 20:59:46 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
Cc:	Matt Carlson <mcarlson@...adcom.com>,
	Michael Chan <mchan@...adcom.com>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] tg3: 64bits stats

Le lundi 05 juillet 2010 à 19:41 +0100, Ben Hutchings a écrit :
> Ugh, I was assuming that callers of dev_get_stats() would hold
> dev_base_lock.  However only netstat_show() seems to do so currently.

Right, but a read_lock() would not be enough, even if all users would
use it.


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