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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: remove rcu locking from fib_rules_event()
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 07:32:39 +0100
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Le mardi 16 mars 2010 =C3=A0 21:28 -0700, David Miller a =C3=A9crit :
> From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:03:38 +0100
>=20
> > We hold RTNL at this point and dont use RCU variants of list traver=
sals,
> > we dont need rcu_read_lock()/rcu_read_unlock()
> >=20
> > Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
>=20
> Applied.

Thanks David.

I believe the synchronize_rcu() we have in this file is useless too,
I'll submit a patch.