netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/1] netstamp_needed shouldn't be jump_label

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Message-ID: <1322516745.2970.26.camel@edumazet-laptop>
Date:	Mon, 28 Nov 2011 22:45:45 +0100
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Cc:	igorm@....rs, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] netstamp_needed shouldn't be jump_label_key

Le lundi 28 novembre 2011 à 13:31 -0800, Stephen Hemminger a écrit :

> Why not just change the jump_label_key to a spin_lock? I can't see that it is held
> long enough to make mutex of any benefit.

Because some arches want to use mutex in their
arch_jump_label_transform() or text_poke_smp()





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