netdev - Re: pull-request: mac80211-next 2019-07-31

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Message-Id: <20190731.090020.971567041397094932.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Wed, 31 Jul 2019 09:00:20 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     johannes@...solutions.net
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: pull-request: mac80211-next 2019-07-31

From: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2019 17:50:56 +0200

> There's a fair number of changes here, so I thought I'd get them out.
> I've included two Intel driver cleanups because Luca is on vacation,
> I'm covering for him, and doing it all in one tree let me merge all
> of the patches at once (including mac80211 that depends on that);
> Kalle is aware.
> 
> Also, though this isn't very interesting yet, I've started looking at
> weaning the wireless subsystem off the RTNL for all operations, as it
> can cause significant lock contention, especially with slow USB devices.
> The real patches for that are some way off, but one preparation here is
> to use generic netlink's parallel_ops=true, to avoid trading one place
> with contention for another in the future, and to avoid adding more
> genl_family_attrbuf() usage (since that's no longer possible with the
> parallel_ops setting).
> 
> Please pull and let me know if there's any problem.

Pulled, thanks Johannes.

I'm sure people like Florian Westphal will also appreciate your RTNL
elimination work...