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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 00/10] Refactor classifier API to work with
 Qdisc/blocks without rtnl lock
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From: Vlad Buslov <vladbu@mellanox.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2018 19:18:32 +0300

 ...
> The goal of this change is to refactor tcf_block_find() and its
> dependencies to allow concurrent execution:
> - Extend Qdisc API with rcu to lookup and take reference to Qdisc
>   without relying on rtnl lock.
> - Extend tcf_block with atomic reference counting and rcu.
> - Always take reference to tcf_block while working with it.
> - Implement tcf_block_release() to release resources obtained by
>   tcf_block_find()
> - Create infrastructure to allow registering Qdiscs with class ops that
>   do not require the caller to hold rtnl lock.

Series applied, thank you.