netdev - Re: [PATCH] openvswitch: using kfree

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Message-Id: <20120831.155739.23641263564536162.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 31 Aug 2012 15:57:39 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jesse@...ira.com
Cc:	weiyj.lk@...il.com, yongjun_wei@...ndmicro.com.cn,
	dev@...nvswitch.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] openvswitch: using kfree_rcu() to simplify the code

From: Jesse Gross <jesse@...ira.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2012 16:00:24 -0700

> On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 9:20 PM, Wei Yongjun <weiyj.lk@...il.com> wrote:
>> From: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@...ndmicro.com.cn>
>>
>> The callback function of call_rcu() just calls a kfree(), so we
>> can use kfree_rcu() instead of call_rcu() + callback function.
>>
>> spatch with a semantic match is used to found this problem.
>> (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@...ndmicro.com.cn>
> 
> Thanks Wei.
> 
> Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@...ira.com>

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