netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] ipv6: mcast: RCU conversion

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Message-Id: <20101124.111702.28794135.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 24 Nov 2010 11:17:02 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] ipv6: mcast: RCU conversion

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 00:12:15 +0100

> ipv6_sk_mc_lock rwlock becomes a spinlock.
> 
> readers (inet6_mc_check()) now takes rcu_read_lock() instead of read
> lock. Writers dont need to disable BH anymore.
> 
> struct ipv6_mc_socklist objects are reclaimed after one RCU grace
> period.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>

Applied.
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