Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 15:51:01 -0800 (PST)
Message-Id: <20051118.155101.51861744.davem@davemloft.net>
To: yanzheng@21cn.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH]IPv6: Acquire addrconf_hash_lock for reading instead of
 writing in addrconf_verify(...)
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
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From: Yan Zheng <yanzheng@21cn.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 10:14:11 +0800

> addrconf_verify(...) only traverse address hash table when addrconf_hash_lock is held
> for writing, and it may hold addrconf_hash_lock for a long time. So I think it's better
> to acquire addrconf_hash_lock for reading instead of  writing
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yan Zheng <yanzheng@21cn.com>

Applied, thanks Yan.
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