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From: jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1][PKT_CLS] Avoid multiple tree locks
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 09:12:58 -0400
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Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
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On Thu, 2007-22-03 at 12:36 +0100, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> jamal wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-21-03 at 15:04 +0100, Patrick McHardy wrote:

> We can remove qdisc_tree_lock since with this patch all changes
> and all tree walking happen under the RTNL. 
> We still need to keep dev->queue_lock for the data path.
> 

ok, that would work. Should have been obvious to me.

cheers,
jamal