Re: [PATCH v2] netlink: Replace rhash_portid with bound

[Herbert Xu]

On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 11:29:28PM -0400, Tejun Heo wrote:
> 
> So, while that also has been a common failure mode that we've been
> seeing with barrier usages, what you're suggesting isn't the right
> balance either.  It's error-prone in a different way as amply
> exemplified in this very thread.  It ended up making what should have
> been a straight-forward writer-reader interlocking into a maze in
> which one can easily be lost.  I think you should be able to see that
> after this thread.

No this isn't what happened.  My error was trying to see if there
is a way to do it without barriers.  In the end there wasn't.  This
has nothing to do with using primitives.

Cheers,
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