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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: Introduce dev_get_by_index_rcu()
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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 07:18:49 +0200

> [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: Introduce dev_get_by_index_rcu()
> 
> Some workloads hit dev_base_lock rwlock pretty hard.
> We can use RCU lookups to avoid touching this rwlock.
> 
> netdevices are already freed after a RCU grace period, so this patch
> adds no penalty at device dismantle time.
> 
> dev_ifname() converted to dev_get_by_index_rcu()
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>

Applied to net-next-2.6, thanks!