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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: RCU locking for simple ioctl()
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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:42:09 +0100

> All ioctls() implemented by dev_ifsioc_locked() :
> SIOCGIFFLAGS, SIOCGIFMETRIC, SIOCGIFMTU, SIOCGIFHWADDR,
> SIOCGIFSLAVE, SIOCGIFMAP, SIOCGIFINDEX & SIOCGIFTXQLEN
> can use RCU lock instead of dev_base_lock rwlock
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>

Applied.