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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6] (3/3) vlan - use RCU
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 16:48:05 -0700
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On Tue, 3 Aug 2004 13:43:46 -0700
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> wrote:

> This patch makes VLAN use RCU for the group lookup and removes
> the group_lock.  Since all operations that are done under group_lock
> already have the rtnetlink semaphore (RTNL), the group_lock is unnecessary.
> The result is the vlan code becomes basically lock free in the send/receive
> path.


Applied, thanks Stephen.