netdev - Re: [PATCH] sock: Remove the global prot

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Date:   Sat, 11 Nov 2017 19:18:10 +0900 (KST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     xiangxia.m.yue@...il.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, zhangtonghao@...ichuxing.com,
        xemul@...nvz.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sock: Remove the global prot_inuse counter.

From: Tonghao Zhang <xiangxia.m.yue@...il.com>
Date: Thu,  9 Nov 2017 00:03:15 -0800

> The per-cpu counter for init_net is prepared in core_initcall.
> The patch 7d720c3e ("percpu: add __percpu sparse annotations to net")
> and d6d9ca0fe ("net: this_cpu_xxx conversions") optimize the
> routines. Then remove the old counter.
> 
> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>
> Signed-off-by: Tonghao Zhang <zhangtonghao@...ichuxing.com>

Yeah, why did we keep this global counter around :-)

Applied to net-next, thanks.