From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: eric.dumazet@gmail.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCN net-next-2.6] net: dev_add_pack() & __dev_remove_pack() changes
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:12:30 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100902.101230.260098512.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1283435626.2454.764.camel@edumazet-laptop>
From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:53:46 +0200
> Add a small helper ptype_head() to get the head to manipulate
>
> dev_add_pack() & __dev_remove_pack() can use a spinlock without
> blocking BH, since softirq use RCU, and these functions are run from
> process context only.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Looks good, applied, thanks Eric.
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2010-09-02 13:53 [PATCN net-next-2.6] net: dev_add_pack() & __dev_remove_pack() changes Eric Dumazet
2010-09-02 17:12 ` David Miller [this message]
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