netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net: remove bh disabling around percpu

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Message-Id: <20170120.112735.1965338591020455561.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Fri, 20 Jan 2017 11:27:35 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: remove bh disabling around
 percpu_counter accesses

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2017 05:06:08 -0800

> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> 
> Shaohua Li made percpu_counter irq safe in commit 098faf5805c8
> ("percpu_counter: make APIs irq safe")
> 
> We can safely remove BH disable/enable sections around various
> percpu_counter manipulations.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

Looks great, applied, thanks Eric.