From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] addrlabel: don't use rtnl locking Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 09:42:07 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20170829.094207.140341127832354750.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20170829112942.4791-1-fw@strlen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: fw@strlen.de Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([184.105.139.130]:34930 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751306AbdH2QmI (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Aug 2017 12:42:08 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20170829112942.4791-1-fw@strlen.de> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Florian Westphal Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 13:29:40 +0200 > addrlabel doesn't appear to require rtnl lock as the addrlabel > table uses a spinlock to serialize add/delete operations. > > Also, entries are reference counted so it should be safe > to call the rtnl ops without the rtnl mutex. Series applied.