From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] ipv6: use RCU to walk list of network devices Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:39:21 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20091113.203921.79518467.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20091110175446.280423729@vyatta.com> <20091110175647.683253741@vyatta.com> <4AFB8246.6060804@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: shemminger@vyatta.com, 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]:46838 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756749AbZKNEjF (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:39:05 -0500 In-Reply-To: <4AFB8246.6060804@gmail.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Eric Dumazet Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 04:34:30 +0100 > [PATCH net-next-2.6] ipv6: use RCU to walk list of network devices > > No longer need read_lock(&dev_base_lock), use RCU instead. > We also can avoid taking references on inet6_dev structs. > > Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Applied.