Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754054AbZDMWy6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Apr 2009 18:54:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753093AbZDMWyq (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Apr 2009 18:54:46 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:43351 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752922AbZDMWyp (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Apr 2009 18:54:45 -0400 Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 15:54:36 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20090413.155436.230187370.davem@davemloft.net> To: shemminger@linux-foundation.org Cc: jpirko@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, jgarzik@pobox.com, bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org, fubar@us.ibm.com, bonding-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, kaber@trash.net, mschmidt@redhat.com, dada1@cosmosbay.com, ivecera@redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] net: introduce a list of device addresses dev_addr_list From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20090413074917.4e317115@nehalam> References: <20090413083729.GA23734@psychotron.englab.brq.redhat.com> <20090413084201.GC23734@psychotron.englab.brq.redhat.com> <20090413074917.4e317115@nehalam> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.2.51 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 489 Lines: 13 From: Stephen Hemminger Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 07:49:17 -0700 > This lock is unnecessary, use RCU list for read. > Since all changes are under RTNL mutex, there is no chance > for conflict on update. Agreed. -- 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/