netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6 2/3] ipip: get rid of ipip

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Message-Id: <20100915.193103.220050908.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 15 Sep 2010 19:31:03 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6 2/3] ipip: get rid of ipip_lock

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 23:07:24 +0200

> As RTNL is held while doing tunnels inserts and deletes, we can remove
> ipip_lock spinlock. My initial RCU conversion was conservative and
> converted the rwlock to spinlock, with no RTNL requirement.
> 
> Use appropriate rcu annotations and modern lockdep checks as well.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>

Applied.
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