netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: Fix rxq ref counting

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Message-Id: <20101008.143512.191408386.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 08 Oct 2010 14:35:12 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	therbert@...gle.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: Fix rxq ref counting

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2010 22:59:09 +0200

> Le jeudi 07 octobre 2010 à 13:09 -0700, Tom Herbert a écrit :
>> The rx->count reference is used to track reference counts to the
>> number of rx-queue kobjects created for the device.  This patch
>> eliminates initialization of the counter in netif_alloc_rx_queues
>> and instead increments the counter each time a kobject is created.
>> This is now symmetric with the decrement that is done when an object is
>> released.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <therbert@...gle.com>
 ...
> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>

Applied, thanks.
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