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From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/14] net: core: add new/replace rate estimator lock
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Date: Wed, 16 May 2018 11:54:16 +0200
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Mon, May 14, 2018 at 04:27:12PM CEST, vladbu@mellanox.com wrote:
>Extend rate estimator new and replace APIs with additional spinlock
>parameter used by lockless actions to protect rate_est pointer from
>concurrent modification.
>
>Signed-off-by: Vlad Buslov <vladbu@mellanox.com>

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> /**
>  * gen_new_estimator - create a new rate estimator
>  * @bstats: basic statistics
>  * @cpu_bstats: bstats per cpu
>  * @rate_est: rate estimator statistics
>+ * @rate_est_lock: rate_est lock (might be NULL)

I cannot find a place you actually use this new arg in this patchset.
Did I miss it?


>  * @stats_lock: statistics lock
>  * @running: qdisc running seqcount
>  * @opt: rate estimator configuration TLV

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