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Date:	Fri, 16 Aug 2013 16:45:44 -0700
From:	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
To:	Wei Yongjun <weiyj.lk@...il.com>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, pshelar@...ira.com,
	mike.rapoport@...ellosystems.com, amwang@...hat.com,
	yongjun_wei@...ndmicro.com.cn, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -next] vxlan: using kfree_rcu() to simplify the code

On Sat, 17 Aug 2013 07:32:09 +0800
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.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@...ndmicro.com.cn>
> ---
>  drivers/net/vxlan.c | 8 +-------
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/vxlan.c b/drivers/net/vxlan.c
> index 227b54a..d6fc046 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/vxlan.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/vxlan.c
> @@ -498,12 +498,6 @@ static int vxlan_fdb_create(struct vxlan_dev *vxlan,
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> -static void vxlan_fdb_free_rdst(struct rcu_head *head)
> -{
> -	struct vxlan_rdst *rd = container_of(head, struct vxlan_rdst, rcu);
> -	kfree(rd);
> -}
> -
>  static void vxlan_fdb_free(struct rcu_head *head)
>  {
>  	struct vxlan_fdb *f = container_of(head, struct vxlan_fdb, rcu);
> @@ -643,7 +637,7 @@ static int vxlan_fdb_delete(struct ndmsg *ndm, struct nlattr *tb[],
>  	 */
>  	if (rd && !list_is_singular(&f->remotes)) {
>  		list_del_rcu(&rd->list);
> -		call_rcu(&rd->rcu, vxlan_fdb_free_rdst);
> +		kfree_rcu(rd, rcu);
>  		goto out;
>  	}
>  
> 

Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
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