netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v7 1/3] rculist: Add hlist_nulls_replace_rcu() and hlist_nulls_replace_init

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Message-ID: <zus4r4dgghmcyyj2bcjiprad4w666u4paqo3c5jgamr5apceje@zzdlbm75h5m5>
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2025 13:36:06 +0800
From: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@...ux.dev>
To: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, kuba@...nel.org, edumazet@...gle.com, 
	davem@...emloft.net, horms@...nel.org, kuniyu@...gle.com
Cc: xuanqiang.luo@...ux.dev, edumazet@...gle.com, kuniyu@...gle.com, 
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>, kerneljasonxing@...il.com, davem@...emloft.net, kuba@...nel.org, 
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Xuanqiang Luo <luoxuanqiang@...inos.cn>, 
	Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>, Neeraj Upadhyay <neeraj.upadhyay@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v7 1/3] rculist: Add hlist_nulls_replace_rcu()
 and hlist_nulls_replace_init_rcu()

On Tue, Sep 30, 2025 at 11:16:00AM +0800, Paolo Abeni wrote:
> On 9/26/25 9:40 AM, xuanqiang.luo@...ux.dev wrote:
> > From: Xuanqiang Luo <luoxuanqiang@...inos.cn>
> > 
> > Add two functions to atomically replace RCU-protected hlist_nulls entries.
[...]
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Xuanqiang Luo <luoxuanqiang@...inos.cn>
> 
> This deserves explicit ack from RCU maintainers.
> 
> Since we are finalizing the net-next PR, I suggest to defer this series
> to the next cycle, to avoid rushing such request.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Paolo

Hi maintainers,

This patch was previously held off due to the merge window.

Now that the merge net-next has open and no further changes are required,
could we please consider merging it directly?

Apologies for the slight push, but I'm hoping we can get a formal
commit backported to our production branch.