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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 1/6] bonding: simplify and use RCU
 protection for 3ad xmit path
Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2013 07:26:53 -0700
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On Thu, 2013-09-05 at 15:42 +0200, Veaceslav Falico wrote:

> Really?
> 
> No. Again - take a look at list_first_or_null_rcu. And its comments.
> 
> I'm sorry that I'm acting that negatively... But if that gets accepted -
> I'll have days of nightmares.
> 
> Try to understand how RCU works, please, before sending patches using it.

BTW, RCU is really hard, even for experimented kernel developers.