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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] packet: less dev_put() calls
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2009 03:42:57 -0800 (PST)
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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:43:32 +0100

> - packet_sendmsg_spkt() can use dev_get_by_name_rcu() to avoid touching device refcount.
> 
> - packet_getname_spkt() & packet_getname() can use dev_get_by_index_rcu() to
>   avoid touching device refcount too.
> 
> tpacket_snd() & packet_snd() can not use RCU yet because they can sleep when
> allocating skb.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>

You're unstoppable :-)

Applied.