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

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Message-Id: <20180220.132423.717464351947753628.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Tue, 20 Feb 2018 13:24:23 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     ktkhai@...tuozzo.com
Cc:     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

From: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@...tuozzo.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 12:58:28 +0300

> [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.

Series applied, thank you.