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Message-Id: <20101027.112245.232739163.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 27 Oct 2010 11:22:45 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] inetpeer: __rcu annotations

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 11:55:38 +0200

> Adds __rcu annotations to inetpeer
> 	(struct inet_peer)->avl_left
> 	(struct inet_peer)->avl_right
> 
> This is a tedious cleanup, but removes one smp_wmb() from link_to_pool()
> since we now use more self documenting rcu_assign_pointer().
> 
> Note the use of RCU_INIT_POINTER() instead of rcu_assign_pointer() in
> all cases we dont need a memory barrier.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>

Applied.
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