netdev - Re: [PATCH v1 net-next 01/11] rtnetlink: Define RTNL_FLAG_DOIT

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Message-ID: <CANn89i+uNM6eznPH0Z8Z4BXG+2a2X84GLCvkyJSd9n3znsedzQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2024 15:48:56 +0200
From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
To: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@...zon.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, 
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>, 
	Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuni1840@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 net-next 01/11] rtnetlink: Define RTNL_FLAG_DOIT_PERNET
 for per-netns RTNL doit().

On Fri, Oct 18, 2024 at 3:23 AM Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@...zon.com> wrote:
>
> We will push RTNL down to each doit() as rtnl_net_lock().
>
> We can use RTNL_FLAG_DOIT_UNLOCKED to call doit() without RTNL, but doit()
> will still hold RTNL.
>
> Let's define RTNL_FLAG_DOIT_PERNET as an alias of RTNL_FLAG_DOIT_UNLOCKED.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@...zon.com>

Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>