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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] inetpeer: do not use zero refcnt for
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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 04:45:24 +0200

> [PATCH net-next-2.6] inetpeer: do not use zero refcnt for freed entries
> 
> Followup of commit aa1039e73cc2 (inetpeer: RCU conversion)
> 
> Unused inet_peer entries have a null refcnt.
> 
> Using atomic_inc_not_zero() in rcu lookups is not going to work for
> them, and slow path is taken.
> 
> Fix this using -1 marker instead of 0 for deleted entries.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>

Applied, thanks Eric.