From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/1] driver: macvlan: Remove the rcu member of macvlan_port Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2016 13:22:33 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <20161207.132233.1044197109019467837.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1481084598-17351-1-git-send-email-fgao@ikuai8.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kaber@trash.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, gfree.wind@gmail.com To: fgao@ikuai8.com Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([184.105.139.130]:37142 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753132AbcLGSWe (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Dec 2016 13:22:34 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1481084598-17351-1-git-send-email-fgao@ikuai8.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: fgao@ikuai8.com Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2016 12:23:18 +0800 > From: Gao Feng > > When free macvlan_port in macvlan_port_destroy, it is safe to free > directly because netdev_rx_handler_unregister could enforce one > grace period. > So it is unnecessary to use kfree_rcu for macvlan_port. > > Signed-off-by: Gao Feng Applied.