netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/3] net: Get rid of net_mutex and simplify cleanup

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Message-ID: <6f4acc35-d1b7-ff41-14a7-0d574a503db5@virtuozzo.com>
Date:   Mon, 19 Feb 2018 16:52:26 +0300
From:   Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@...tuozzo.com>
To:     davem@...emloft.net, nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com,
        vyasevic@...hat.com, paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
        vyasevich@...il.com, mark.rutland@....com,
        gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, leonro@...lanox.com,
        avagin@...tuozzo.com, fw@...len.de, roman.kapl@...go.com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] net: Get rid of net_mutex and simplify cleanup_list
 queueing

The topic has to contain [net-next]. Sorry for I forgot to add it.

Thanks.

On 19.02.2018 12:58, Kirill Tkhai wrote:
> [1/3] kills net_mutex and makes net_sem be taken for write instead.
>       This is made to take less locks (1 instead of 2) for the time
>       before all pernet_operations are converted.
> 
> [2-3/3] simplifies dead net cleanup queueing, and makes llist api
>         be used for that.
> 
> ---
> 
> Kirill Tkhai (3):
>       net: Kill net_mutex
>       net: Make cleanup_list and net::cleanup_list of llist type
>       net: Queue net_cleanup_work only if there is first net added
> 
> 
>  include/linux/rtnetlink.h   |    1 -
>  include/net/net_namespace.h |   12 +++++--
>  net/core/net_namespace.c    |   75 ++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------
>  3 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 41 deletions(-)
> 
> --
> Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@...tuozzo.com>
>