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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com,
	vyasevic@redhat.com, paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
	vyasevich@gmail.com, mark.rutland@arm.com,
	gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, leonro@mellanox.com,
	avagin@virtuozzo.com, fw@strlen.de, roman.kapl@sysgo.com,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] net: Kill net_mutex
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2018 15:18:57 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180220151857.542d7225@xeon-e3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <151903431795.8021.5069678488269142143.stgit@localhost.localdomain>

On Mon, 19 Feb 2018 12:58:38 +0300
Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com> wrote:

> +	struct list_head	exit_list;	/* To linked to call pernet exit
> +						 * methods on dead net (net_sem
> +						 * read locked), or to unregister
> +						 * pernet ops (net_sem wr locked).
> +						 */

Sorry, that comment is completely unparseable.
Either you know what it does, and therefore comment is unnecessary
Or change comment to a valid explanation of the semantics of the list.

Maybe comments about locking model are best left to where
it is used in the code.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-02-20 23:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-19  9:58 [PATCH 0/3] net: Get rid of net_mutex and simplify cleanup_list queueing Kirill Tkhai
2018-02-19  9:58 ` [PATCH 1/3] net: Kill net_mutex Kirill Tkhai
2018-02-20 23:18   ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2018-02-21 10:16     ` Kirill Tkhai
2018-02-19  9:58 ` [PATCH 2/3] net: Make cleanup_list and net::cleanup_list of llist type Kirill Tkhai
2018-02-20 19:42   ` Cong Wang
2018-02-21  8:30     ` Kirill Tkhai
2018-02-19  9:58 ` [PATCH 3/3] net: Queue net_cleanup_work only if there is first net added Kirill Tkhai
2018-02-19 13:52 ` [PATCH 0/3] net: Get rid of net_mutex and simplify cleanup_list queueing Kirill Tkhai
2018-02-20 18:24 ` David Miller

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