netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/1] ixgbe: replace rtnl_lock with rcu_read

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Message-ID: <1465125256.2968.50.camel@edumazet-glaptop3.roam.corp.google.com>
Date:	Sun, 05 Jun 2016 04:14:16 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	zyjzyj2000@...il.com
Cc:	e1000-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] ixgbe: replace rtnl_lock with rcu_read_lock

On Sun, 2016-06-05 at 17:14 +0800, zyjzyj2000@...il.com wrote:
> From: Zhu Yanjun <zyjzyj2000@...il.com>
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Zhu Yanjun <zyjzyj2000@...il.com>
> ---

You do not explain if this is a bug fix (targeting net tree) or simply
an optimization in the slow path (targeting net-next tree) ?

A changelog, even small, would be nice, even if the patch looks valid.