netdev - Re: [PATCHv2 net-next 0/4] Few l2 table related enhancements for cxgb4

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Message-Id: <20151217.155204.320117650010273666.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 17 Dec 2015 15:52:04 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	hariprasad@...lsio.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, leedom@...lsio.com, nirranjan@...lsio.com
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 net-next 0/4] Few l2 table related enhancements for
 cxgb4

From: Hariprasad Shenai <hariprasad@...lsio.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2015 13:45:06 +0530

> This series adds a new API to allocate and update l2t entry, replaces
> arpq_head/arpq_tail with double skb double linked list. Use t4_mgmt_tx()
> to send control packets of l2t write request. Use symbolic constants
> while calculating vlan priority.
> 
> This patch series has been created against net-next tree and includes
> patches on cxgb4 driver.
> 
> We have included all the maintainers of respective drivers. Kindly review
> the change and let us know in case of any review comments.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> V2: Remove unnecessary MAS operation while calculating vlan prio in
>     PATCH 1/4 ("cxgb4: Use symbolic constant for VLAN priority calculation")
>     based on review comment by David Miller

Series applied.

However, while reading over this, it seems to me that e->refcnt doesn't
need to be an atomic_t.  It's always changed under the rwlock, therefore
you can just use non-atomic refcounting.
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