netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 4/4] net/sched: act_mirred: Implement ingress actions

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Message-ID: <20160922212745.789734c5@halley>
Date:   Thu, 22 Sep 2016 21:27:45 +0300
From:   Shmulik Ladkani <shmulik.ladkani@...il.com>
To:     Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>,
        WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Shmulik Ladkani <shmulik.ladkani@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 4/4] net/sched: act_mirred: Implement ingress
 actions

On Thu, 22 Sep 2016 07:54:13 -0700 Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:
> Hmm... we probably need to apply the full rcu protection before this
> patch.
> 
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/667680/

Are you referring to order of application into net-next?

This patch seems to present no new tcf_mirred_params members nor
need-to-be-protected code regions (please, correct me if wrong).
So it does not _depend_ on the 'full rcu fixes', does it?

Thanks,
Shmulik