netdev - Re: [v2 PATCH 3/3] netlink: Use rhashtable walk interface in diag dump

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Message-ID: <20160819163237.GC29430@pox.localdomain>
Date:   Fri, 19 Aug 2016 18:32:37 +0200
From:   Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
To:     Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [v2 PATCH 3/3] netlink: Use rhashtable walk interface in diag
 dump

On 08/19/16 at 04:21pm, Herbert Xu wrote:
> This patch converts the diag dumping code to use the rhashtable
> walk code instead of going through rhashtable by hand.  The lock
> nl_table_lock is now only taken while we process the multicast
> list as it's not needed for the rhashtable walk.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>

LGTM. Curious, what did you use to test this? I've been struggling
to find a good test case.