Subject: Re: [RFC 2/9] ipv6: sr: add code base for control plane support of SR-IPv6

From: David Lebrun <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2016 15:25:14 +0200

On 08/31/2016 07:10 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> Since these are for control operations why a mutex?

I am not sure to understand the question. The spinlock is used on the
RCU write side of the namespace-wide parameters to prevent concurrent
writes.

David