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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] decnet: convert dndev_lock to spinlock
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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:40:36 -0800

> There is no reason for this lock to be reader/writer since
> the reader only has lock held for a very brief period.
> The overhead of read_lock is more expensive than spinlock.
> 
> Compile tested only, I am not a decnet user.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>

Applied to net-next-2.6