Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 06 Jan 2015 17:19:41 -0500 (EST) | Subject | Re: [RFC] netlink: get rid of nl_table_lock | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org> Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2015 11:02:11 -0800
> As a follow on to Thomas's patch I think this would complete the > transistion to RCU for netlink. > Compile tested only. > > This patch gets rid of the reader/writer nl_table_lock and replaces it > with exclusively using RCU for reading, and a mutex for writing. > > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
FWIW, this approach looks fine to me.
Thomas can you review this?
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