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* [PATCH] net: ipv6: Remove unneccessary comments
@ 2017-04-08 15:49 Arushi Singhal
  2017-04-08 20:12 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Arushi Singhal @ 2017-04-08 15:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: pablo
  Cc: Jozsef Kadlecsik, David S. Miller, Alexey Kuznetsov,
	James Morris, Hideaki YOSHIFUJI, Patrick McHardy,
	netfilter-devel, coreteam, netdev, linux-kernel

This comments are obsolete and should go, as there are no set of rules per
CPU anymore.

Signed-off-by: Arushi Singhal <arushisinghal19971997@gmail.com>
---
 net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c | 9 ---------
 1 file changed, 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c b/net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c
index 1e15c54fd5e2..e52234a111d6 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c
@@ -51,15 +51,6 @@ void *ip6t_alloc_initial_table(const struct xt_table *info)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ip6t_alloc_initial_table);
 
-/*
-   We keep a set of rules for each CPU, so we can avoid write-locking
-   them in the softirq when updating the counters and therefore
-   only need to read-lock in the softirq; doing a write_lock_bh() in user
-   context stops packets coming through and allows user context to read
-   the counters or update the rules.
-
-   Hence the start of any table is given by get_table() below.  */
-
 /* Returns whether matches rule or not. */
 /* Performance critical - called for every packet */
 static inline bool
-- 
2.11.0

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* Re: [PATCH] net: ipv6: Remove unneccessary comments
  2017-04-08 15:49 [PATCH] net: ipv6: Remove unneccessary comments Arushi Singhal
@ 2017-04-08 20:12 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Pablo Neira Ayuso @ 2017-04-08 20:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Arushi Singhal
  Cc: Jozsef Kadlecsik, David S. Miller, Alexey Kuznetsov,
	James Morris, Hideaki YOSHIFUJI, Patrick McHardy,
	netfilter-devel, coreteam, netdev, linux-kernel

On Sat, Apr 08, 2017 at 09:19:30PM +0530, Arushi Singhal wrote:
> This comments are obsolete and should go, as there are no set of rules per
> CPU anymore.

Applied, thanks.

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