Martin Josefsson wrote: > As a somewhat related note, I've just digged a bit through RCU land, > talked to dipankar and mckenney, and discovered that rcu_read_lock() / > rcu_read_unlock() aren't strictly needed in softirqs since preempt is > already disabled in softirqs. This means that you can use the result of > the rcu read-side critical outside of the rcu_read_lock() /
Thats true, but in this case the code is executed both in softirq- and user-context. Using rcu_read_lock and still relying on softirq properties outside the locked section is also very confusing in my opinion. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
