Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Tue, 11 Mar 2003 16:34:08 -0800 (PST) | Subject | Re: [PATCH] (8/8) Kill brlock | From | "David S. Miller" <> |
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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Date: 11 Mar 2003 16:31:46 -0800
The caller's didn't need to stop packet processing, just remove their type from a list or some other call back hook. A simple pointer update takes care of removing a simple call back. The list delete rcu code takes care of the memory barriers and doing the updates in the right order. This ensures no future packet processing will grab that token
Ok, I'm fine with this then. Linus you can apply all of his patches. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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