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Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2025 04:15:10 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Kirill Tkhai <tkhai@ya.ru>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH NET-PREV 00/51] Kill rtnl_lock using fine-grained
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On Sat, 22 Mar 2025 17:37:41 +0300 Kirill Tkhai wrote:
> I mostly write this mostly a few years ago, more or less recently
> I rebased the patches on kernel around 6.11 (there should not
> be many conflicts on that version). Currenly I have no plans
> to complete this.
> 
> If anyone wants to continue, this person can take this patchset
> and done the work.

Was there a pain point you were trying to address, or was rtnl_lock
just an interesting challenge? Paolo mentioned trying to convert veth
to instance locking, I guess he may need to reach for similar solutions.