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From: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@dev.6wind.com>
To: netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] netns: remove useless synchronize_net()
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 11:21:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <498ABDA2.5040603@dev.6wind.com> (raw)

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In dev_change_net_namespace(), synchronize_net() is called at the end of the 
function, but there is no reason (no deletion occurs).

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>

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--- linux-2.6.28.2/net/core/dev.c	2009-01-24 19:42:07.000000000 -0500
+++ linux-2.6.28.2-new/net/core/dev.c	2009-02-05 04:16:35.000000000 -0500
@@ -4546,7 +4546,6 @@ int dev_change_net_namespace(struct net_
 	/* Notify protocols, that a new device appeared. */
 	call_netdevice_notifiers(NETDEV_REGISTER, dev);
 
-	synchronize_net();
 	err = 0;
 out:
 	return err;

             reply	other threads:[~2009-02-05 10:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-05 10:21 Nicolas Dichtel [this message]
2009-02-06  7:45 ` [PATCH] netns: remove useless synchronize_net() David Miller
2009-02-06 13:50   ` Nicolas Dichtel
2009-02-06 22:10     ` David Miller
2009-02-10 15:40       ` Nicolas Dichtel
2009-02-10 16:40         ` Daniel Lezcano
2009-02-10 16:48           ` Nicolas Dichtel
2009-02-10 17:13             ` Daniel Lezcano
2009-02-11  7:51               ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-02-11 15:49                 ` Daniel Lezcano
2009-02-11 23:03                   ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-02-12 15:11                     ` Daniel Lezcano
     [not found]                       ` <49943C17.5080509-GANU6spQydw@public.gmane.org>
2009-02-15 16:13                         ` Daniel Lezcano
     [not found]                           ` <49983F0D.2090905-GANU6spQydw@public.gmane.org>
2009-02-16 13:46                             ` Nicolas Dichtel

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