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On Mon, 2013-03-04 at 10:43 +0200, Eliezer Tamir wrote:

> One could for example increment the generation id every time the RTNL is 
> taken. or is this too much?

RTNL is taken for a lot of operations, it would be better to have a
finer grained increment.