netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] net: sched: Do not pass root lock Qdisc

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Date:   Tue, 14 Jul 2020 07:24:43 -0700
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     Petr Machata <petrm@...lanox.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>,
        Ido Schimmel <idosch@...lanox.com>,
        Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] net: sched: Do not pass root lock
 Qdisc_ops.enqueue



On 7/14/20 6:32 AM, Petr Machata wrote:
> The reason for this was to make visible the dangerous possibility that
> enqueue drops the lock. The previous patch undoes the lock dropping, and
> therefore this patch can be reverted.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Petr Machata <petrm@...lanox.com>

Wow, I have not seen that this stuff actually went in net-next.

Please make this a proper revert of
aebe4426ccaa4838f36ea805cdf7d76503e65117 ("net: sched: Pass root lock to Qdisc_ops.enqueue")


git revert aebe4426ccaa4838f36ea805cdf7d76503e65117