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Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2020 17:58:17 -0600 From: George McCollister <george.mccollister@...il.com> To: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com> Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>, Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...il.com>, Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>, "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, "open list:OPEN FIRMWARE AND..." <devicetree@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 2/3] net: dsa: add Arrow SpeedChips XRS700x driver On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 5:50 PM Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 10:52:35AM -0600, George McCollister wrote: > > Another possible option could be replacing for_each_netdev_rcu with > > for_each_netdev_srcu and using list_for_each_entry_srcu (though it's > > currently used nowhere else in the kernel). Has anyone considered > > using sleepable RCUs or thought of a reason they wouldn't work or > > wouldn't be desirable? For more info search for SRCU in > > Documentation/RCU/RTFP.txt > > Want to take the lead? I certainly could take a stab at it. It would be nice to get a "doesn't sound like a terrible idea at first glance" from Jakub (and anyone else) before starting on it. Maybe someone has brought this up before and was shot down for $reason. If so that would be nice to know. Of course it's possible I could also find some reason it won't work after investigating/implementing/testing.
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