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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next-2.6] netfilter: ip_tables: dont block BH
 while reading counters
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 09:31:49 -0800
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On Thu, 16 Dec 2010 17:53:56 +0100
Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> wrote:

>  	spinlock_t lock;
> +	seqcount_t seq;

Since lock and seqcount_t are associated together, why isn't this a seqlock instead?

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