Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6] (3/3) vlan - use RCU

From: Ben Greear <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 14:03:50 -0700

Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> This patch makes VLAN use RCU for the group lookup and removes
> the group_lock.  Since all operations that are done under group_lock
> already have the rtnetlink semaphore (RTNL), the group_lock is unnecessary.
> The result is the vlan code becomes basically lock free in the send/receive
> path.

Looks good to me, but I'm fairly ignorant of RCU at this point.  Will
trust Stephen knows what he is doing :)

Ben

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