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

[Tejun Heo]

On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 11:31:17AM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> 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.

Hmmm... yeah, you can say that, but it still was a failure to
recognize and apply the common pattern and what you're suggesting is
deviating for no good reason.  It demands a lot of cognitive overhead
for something which should be routine and makes the code a lot more
fragile as a result.  Things like this make barrier usages difficult
to understand and verify because it takes away a lot of ready-made
cognitive tools.  So, let's please stick to the known pattern.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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