From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 7 Feb 2003 18:24:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 7 Feb 2003 18:24:49 -0500 Received: from ithilien.qualcomm.com ([129.46.51.59]:45473 "EHLO ithilien.qualcomm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 7 Feb 2003 18:24:49 -0500 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20030207153336.0583e198@mail1.qualcomm.com> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2003 15:34:22 -0800 To: "David S. Miller" From: Max Krasnyansky Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] New module refcounting for net_proto_family Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20030207.014836.78483470.davem@redhat.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org At 01:48 AM 2/7/2003 -0800, David S. Miller wrote: > From: Max Krasnyansky > Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 19:22:44 -0800 (PST) > > So here is new patch. > >Ok, it generally looks fine, and try_module_get() is cheap enough >(basically the equivalent of a local-cpu statistic bump plus >a compare) that I'm not concerned about any added overhead. > >And since it is fixing a bug... :-) Good. >Just let me discuss some things with Alexey before I apply this. Sure. Do you want me to push this stuff to BK where you can pull from ? Max