netdev - Re: [PATCH v3 net-next 4/4] rocker: make rocker_port_internal_vlan_id

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Message-ID: <20150520060204.GD2228@nanopsycho.orion>
Date:	Wed, 20 May 2015 08:02:04 +0200
From:	Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
To:	Simon Horman <simon.horman@...ronome.com>
Cc:	Scott Feldman <sfeldma@...il.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 net-next 4/4] rocker: make
 rocker_port_internal_vlan_id_{get,put}() non-transactional

Wed, May 20, 2015 at 07:48:22AM CEST, simon.horman@...ronome.com wrote:
>The motivation for this is that rocker_port_internal_vlan_id_{get,put} appear
>to only partially implement the transaction model: memory allocation
>and freeing is transactional, but hash and bitmap manipulation is not.
>
>The latter could be fixed, however, as it is not currently exercised
>due to trans always being SWITCHDEV_TRANS_NONE it seems cleaner
>to make rocker_port_internal_vlan_id_get non-transactional.
>
>Found by inspection.
>I do not believe that this change should have any run-time effect.
>
>Fixes: c4f20321d968 ("rocker: support prepare-commit transaction model")
>Acked-by: Scott Feldman <sfeldma@...il.com>
>Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman@...ronome.com>

Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
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