netdev - Re: [PATCH 03/18] ipvs: zero percpu stats

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Date:	Wed, 09 Mar 2011 18:53:44 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	horms@...ge.net.au
Cc:	ja@....bg, eric.dumazet@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, netfilter@...r.kernel.org,
	lvs-devel@...r.kernel.org, hans@...illstrom.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/18] ipvs: zero percpu stats

From: Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au>
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 10:34:42 +0900

> On Sun, Mar 06, 2011 at 02:18:35PM +0200, Julian Anastasov wrote:
> 
> [ snip ]
> 
>> 	Zero the new percpu stats because we copy from there.
>> Use the stats spin lock to synchronize the percpu zeroing with
>> the percpu reading, both in user context and not in a hot path.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@....bg>
> 
> Eric, do you have any thoughts on this?
> It seems clean to me.

Eric is away until this weekend, so don't be alarmed by a
late response :-)
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