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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC v3 3/6] can: make struct proto const
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 23:19:16 +0100
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Le mardi 15 mars 2011 =C3=A0 22:28 +0100, Oliver Hartkopp a =C3=A9crit =
:

> Hello Eric,
>=20
> the RCU code in phonet is worth to consider. But loading and removing=
 of
> protocols is far away from being a hot path ... what would be the adv=
antages
> to move to RCU here?
>=20

can_create() could avoid taking the spinlock.

I have no idea if its a critical path, I guess not.