Re: [PATCH v1 01/25] net: core: device_rename: Use rwsem instead of a seqcount

[David Miller]

From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 20 May 2020 01:42:30 +0200

> Stephen Hemminger <stephen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> On Wed, 20 May 2020 00:23:48 +0200
>> Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> No. We did not. -ENOTESTCASE
>>
>> Please try, it isn't that hard..
>>
>> # time for ((i=0;i<1000;i++)); do ip li add dev dummy$i type dummy; done
>>
>> real	0m17.002s
>> user	0m1.064s
>> sys	0m0.375s
> 
> And that solves the incorrectness of the current code in which way?

You mentioned that there wasn't a test case, he gave you one to try.