Hi, On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, David S. Miller wrote: > 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? BTW if anyone is interested in a brlock implementation, which can offer this property, but can also beat rcu, you might want to look at this patch http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=104733360501112&w=2 bye, Roman - : 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