Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 03/14] ipv6: prepare inet6_fill_ifinfo() for RCU protection

From: Jiri Pirko <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2024 08:16:56 +0100

Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 05:45:20PM CET, [email-masked] wrote:
>On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 5:36 PM Jiri Pirko <[email-masked]> wrote:
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>> Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 11:50:10AM CET, [email-masked] wrote:
>> >We want to use RCU protection instead of RTNL
>>
>> Is this a royal "We"? :)
>
>I was hoping reducing RTNL pressure was a team effort.

Yeah sure, it just reads odd to me, that's it. Basically if you state
the motivation in the cover letter, then in the patches you just tell
the codebase what to do and this "we want" statement become redundant.

>
>If not, maybe I should consider doing something else, if hundreds of
>kernel engineers are adding more and more stuff depending on RTNL.