From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 16:23:24 -0800 (PST) On 11 Mar 2003, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > The following sequence of patches replaces the remaining use of brlock > with RCU. Most of this is fairly straightforward. The unregister functions > use synchronize_kernel(), perhaps there should be a special version to > indicate sychronizing with network BH. > > Comments? I'm not going to take this directly, but if it passes muster with David, I'm happy. The fewer locking primitives we need, the better, and brlocks have had enough problems that I wouldn't mind getting rid of them. I'm fine with it, as long as I get shown how to get the equivalent atomic sequence using the new primitives. Ie. is there still a way to go: stop_all_incoming_packets(); do_something(); resume_all_incoming_packets(); with the new stuff? - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
