[ovs-dev] [PATCH 01/13] Upstream GRE: Use RTNL for atomic protocol registration.

Pravin Shelar pshelar at nicira.com
Wed Nov 7 01:29:24 UTC 2012


Most of protocol in kernel are registered with RTNL lock, so GRE protocol
registration shld also use same lock rather than introducing new lock.


On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 5:09 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 04:59:01PM -0800, Pravin B Shelar wrote:
> > Currently gre demultiplexer uses its own spin-lock. We should rather
> > RTNL lock.
>
> The commit message doesn't make it clear why this change is desirable.
>
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