netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net: Replace u64_stats_fetch_begin_bh to u64_stats_fetch_begin

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Date:	Fri, 14 Mar 2014 22:41:12 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ebiederm@...ssion.com
Cc:	eric.dumazet@...il.com, romieu@...zoreil.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, xiyou.wangcong@...il.com, mpm@...enic.com,
	satyam.sharma@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: Replace u64_stats_fetch_begin_bh to
 u64_stats_fetch_begin_irq

From: ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 21:26:42 -0700

> Replace the bh safe variant with the hard irq safe variant.
> 
> We need a hard irq safe variant to deal with netpoll transmitting
> packets from hard irq context, and we need it in most if not all of
> the places using the bh safe variant.  
> 
> Except on 32bit uni-processor the code is exactly the same so don't
> bother with a bh variant, just have a hard irq safe variant that
> everyone can use.
> 
> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>

This looks great.

I'm going to apply this to the net-next tree, I hope the block folks
don't mind.
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