netdev - Re: [PATCH net v2 1/3] net: fix race conditions in xps by locking the maps and dev->tc

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Date:   Wed, 23 Dec 2020 12:59:51 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Antoine Tenart <atenart@...nel.org>
Cc:     Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v2 1/3] net: fix race conditions in xps by locking
 the maps and dev->tc_num

On Wed, 23 Dec 2020 21:56:56 +0100 Antoine Tenart wrote:
> You understood correctly, the only reason to move this code out of sysfs
> was to access the xps_map lock. Without the need, the code can stay in
> sysfs.
> 
> Patch 2 is not only moving the code out of sysfs, but also reworking
> xps_cpus_show. I think I now see where the confusion comes from: the
> reason patches 2 and 3 were in two different patches was because they
> were targeting net and different kernel versions. They could be squashed
> now.

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