From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753012AbeFAQox (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Jun 2018 12:44:53 -0400 Received: from orcrist.hmeau.com ([104.223.48.154]:58082 "EHLO deadmen.hmeau.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751780AbeFAQov (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Jun 2018 12:44:51 -0400 Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2018 00:44:43 +0800 From: Herbert Xu To: NeilBrown Cc: Thomas Graf , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/18] rhashtable: use cmpxchg() to protect ->future_tbl. Message-ID: <20180601164443.zf7veoutbs2qvmsh@gondor.apana.org.au> References: <152782754287.30340.4395718227884933670.stgit@noble> <152782824954.30340.10107132482367263068.stgit@noble> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <152782824954.30340.10107132482367263068.stgit@noble> User-Agent: NeoMutt/20170113 (1.7.2) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jun 01, 2018 at 02:44:09PM +1000, NeilBrown wrote: > Rather than borrowing one of the bucket locks to > protect ->future_tbl updates, use cmpxchg(). > This gives more freedom to change how bucket locking > is implemented. > > Signed-off-by: NeilBrown Acked-by: Herbert Xu -- Email: Herbert Xu Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt