Re: [RFC] netlink: get rid of nl_table_lock

[David Miller]

From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2015 11:02:11 -0800

> As a follow on to Thomas's patch I think this would complete the
> transistion to RCU for netlink.
> Compile tested only.
> 
> This patch gets rid of the reader/writer nl_table_lock and replaces it
> with exclusively using RCU for reading, and a mutex for writing.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

FWIW, this approach looks fine to me.

Thomas can you review this?
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