From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: eric.dumazet@gmail.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] pppoe: RCU locking in get_item_by_addr()
Date: Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:57:34 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091101.235734.211813660.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AEE735A.4020601@gmail.com>
From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:51:22 +0100
>
> Note : this patch depends on dev_get_by_name_rcu(), not yet comitted.
Yep, I just tossed that one ine.
> [PATCH net-next-2.6] pppoe: RCU locking in get_item_by_addr()
>
> Use dev_get_by_name_rcu() instead of dev_get_by_name(),
> to avoid touching device refcount in hotpath.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
And now this one too, applied, thanks!
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2009-11-02 5:51 [PATCH net-next-2.6] pppoe: RCU locking in get_item_by_addr() Eric Dumazet
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