From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller 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) Message-ID: <20091101.235734.211813660.davem@davemloft.net> References: <4AEE735A.4020601@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: eric.dumazet@gmail.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:40371 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753989AbZKBH5J (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Nov 2009 02:57:09 -0500 In-Reply-To: <4AEE735A.4020601@gmail.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Eric Dumazet 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 And now this one too, applied, thanks!