Re: [PATCH net-next v12 1/5] net: Introduce generic failover module

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Sat, May 26, 2018 at 12:37:44AM CEST, stephen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>On Thu, 24 May 2018 09:55:13 -0700
>Sridhar Samudrala <sridhar.samudrala@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> +	spin_lock(&failover_lock);
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>Since register is not in fast path, this should be a mutex?

I don't get it. Why would you prefer mutex over spinlock here?
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