From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758506AbXINVwf (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Sep 2007 17:52:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756554AbXINVw1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Sep 2007 17:52:27 -0400 Received: from e1.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.141]:38181 "EHLO e1.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755821AbXINVw0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Sep 2007 17:52:26 -0400 Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 14:52:21 -0700 From: "Paul E. McKenney" To: Johannes Berg Cc: "John W. Linville" , Linux Kernel list , linux-wireless Subject: Re: [PATCH] list.h: add list_for_each_entry_continue_rcu Message-ID: <20070914215221.GH9393@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reply-To: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com References: <1189425947.4506.78.camel@johannes.berg> <20070910173948.GD11801@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1189804498.3974.57.camel@johannes.berg> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1189804498.3974.57.camel@johannes.berg> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 11:14:58PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 10:39 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 02:05:47PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > > > To implement the multicast list callback in mac80211 we need to > > > do partial list iteration. Since I want to convert the interface > > > list to an RCU list, I need a new list walking primitive: > > > list_for_each_entry_continue_rcu(). > > Hah. Turns out if I do the right thing with dev_mc_sync() I no longer > need this. Paul, do you want to push it to akpm or such? My bugfix no > longer relies on it. OK, will push it when I convert list_for_each_continue_rcu(). Thanx, Paul