From: Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@huawei•com>
To: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@redhat•com>
Cc: <netdev@vger•kernel.org>, <andy@greyhouse•net>,
<fubar@us•ibm.com>, <davem@davemloft•net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/5] bonding: locking simplifications and cleanup
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2013 09:48:04 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52253FD4.1060908@huawei.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1378122702-28943-1-git-send-email-nikolay@redhat.com>
On 2013/9/2 19:51, Nikolay Aleksandrov wrote:
> Hello,
> This small patchset aims to remove some use cases of bond->lock for mutual
> exclusion which will help in the RCUfication of the function users. It also
> does some small style cleanups and fixes.
>
> Patch 01 - Drops the use of bond->lock as mutual exclusion for peer
> notification and relies on RTNL being held when send_peer_notif is modified
> Patch 02 - trivial outdated comment removal
> Patch 03 - Drops the use of bond->lock as mutual exclusion for lacp rate
> update and relies on RTNL, also fixes possible races with mode change
> Patch 04 - Drops read_lock in bond_fix_features because RTNL is held
> Patch 05 - Drops read_lock in bond_compute_features because RTNL is held
> whenever it's called
>
> Best regards,
> Nikolay Aleksandrov
>
> Nikolay Aleksandrov (5):
> bonding: simplify and fix peer notification
> bonding: trivial: remove outdated comment and braces
> bonding: simplify bond_3ad_update_lacp_rate and use RTNL for sync
> bonding: drop read_lock in bond_fix_features
> bonding: drop read_lock in bond_compute_features
>
> drivers/net/bonding/bond_3ad.c | 8 +------
> drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c | 48 ++++++++++++----------------------------
> drivers/net/bonding/bond_sysfs.c | 7 +++++-
> 3 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 42 deletions(-)
>
Reviewed-by: Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@huawei•com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-03 1:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-02 11:51 [PATCH net-next 0/5] bonding: locking simplifications and cleanup Nikolay Aleksandrov
2013-09-02 11:51 ` [PATCH net-next 1/5] bonding: simplify and fix peer notification Nikolay Aleksandrov
2013-09-02 11:51 ` [PATCH net-next 2/5] bonding: trivial: remove outdated comment and braces Nikolay Aleksandrov
2013-09-02 11:51 ` [PATCH net-next 3/5] bonding: simplify bond_3ad_update_lacp_rate and use RTNL for sync Nikolay Aleksandrov
2013-09-02 11:51 ` [PATCH net-next 4/5] bonding: drop read_lock in bond_fix_features Nikolay Aleksandrov
2013-09-02 11:51 ` [PATCH net-next 5/5] bonding: drop read_lock in bond_compute_features Nikolay Aleksandrov
2013-09-03 1:48 ` Ding Tianhong [this message]
2013-09-04 4:52 ` [PATCH net-next 0/5] bonding: locking simplifications and cleanup David Miller
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