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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: don't use INIT_RCU_HEAD
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:29:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49072FC2.8030801@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081028133124.GA3006@x200.localdomain>

Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> call_rcu() will unconditionally rewrite RCU head anyway.
> Applies to 
> 	struct neigh_parms
> 	struct neigh_table
> 	struct net
> 	struct cipso_v4_doi
> 	struct in_ifaddr
> 	struct in_device
> 	rt->u.dst

It would probably make sense to get a statement from Paul
whether this might be required in the future, f.i. for some
debugging feature.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-28 15:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-28 13:31 [PATCH] net: don't use INIT_RCU_HEAD Alexey Dobriyan
2008-10-28 15:29 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2008-10-28 15:43   ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-10-28 16:05     ` Paul E. McKenney
2008-10-28 16:10 ` Paul E. McKenney
2008-10-28 20:25   ` David Miller

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