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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 net-next 1/5] net: add napi_id and hash
From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Eliezer Tamir <eliezer.tamir@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dave Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        netdev@vger.kernel.org, Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>,
        Don Skidmore <donald.c.skidmore@intel.com>,
        e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
        Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>,
        Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, HPA <hpa@zytor.com>,
        Eilon Greenstien <eilong@broadcom.com>,
        Or Gerlitz <or.gerlitz@gmail.com>, Alex Rosenbaum <alexr@mellanox.com>,
        Eliezer Tamir <eliezer@tamir.org.il>
Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 06:38:00 -0700
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On Tue, 2013-05-28 at 11:03 +0300, Eliezer Tamir wrote:

> With an atomic we don't need the RTNL in any of the napi_id functions.
> One less thing to worry about when we try to remove the RTNL.

OK but we'll need something to protect the lists against concurrent
insert/deletes.

A spinlock or a mutex.


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