netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2 2/5] rhashtable: add function to replace an element

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Message-ID: <20151209024323.GA24768@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:	Wed, 9 Dec 2015 10:43:23 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Tom Herbert <tom@...bertland.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Kernel Team <kernel-team@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 2/5] rhashtable: add function to replace an
 element

On Tue, Dec 08, 2015 at 09:14:24AM -0800, Tom Herbert wrote:
> 
> That creates one more level of indirection. I don't see how add an
> atomic replace operation adds any complexity to the rhashtable, none
> of the semantics for rhashtable need to be changed.

OK after thinking about it a little bit more I think your approach
is safe and we won't need to play any more games to get this to
work.  So I'm fine with this patch.

Cheers,
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