netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 03/14] ipv6: prepare inet6_fill

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Message-ID: <CANn89iJsmOk7AhGo2+rD53T23+JfQvo7kqg-ARY7d43T683Hdw@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2024 17:45:20 +0100
From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
To: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
Cc: "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, 
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, 
	Ido Schimmel <idosch@...dia.com>, Jiri Pirko <jiri@...dia.com>, eric.dumazet@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 03/14] ipv6: prepare inet6_fill_ifinfo() for
 RCU protection

On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 5:36 PM Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us> wrote:
>
> Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 11:50:10AM CET, edumazet@...gle.com wrote:
> >We want to use RCU protection instead of RTNL
>
> Is this a royal "We"? :)

I was hoping reducing RTNL pressure was a team effort.

If not, maybe I should consider doing something else, if hundreds of
kernel engineers are adding more and more stuff depending on RTNL.