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From: David Lebrun <david.lebrun@uclouvain.be>
Subject: Re: [RFC 2/9] ipv6: sr: add code base for control plane support of
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Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2016 15:25:14 +0200
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On 08/31/2016 07:10 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> Since these are for control operations why a mutex?

I am not sure to understand the question. The spinlock is used on the
RCU write side of the namespace-wide parameters to prevent concurrent
writes.

David


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