Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 45/86] net,act_police,rcu: removercu_barrier()

From: Josh Triplett
Date: Sun May 01 2011 - 12:00:26 EST


On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 06:21:25AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> From: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> There is no callback of this module maybe queued
> since we use kfree_rcu(), we can safely remove the rcu_barrier().
>
> Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> net/sched/act_police.c | 1 -
> 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/sched/act_police.c b/net/sched/act_police.c
> index d6bcd64..b3b9b32 100644
> --- a/net/sched/act_police.c
> +++ b/net/sched/act_police.c
> @@ -396,7 +396,6 @@ static void __exit
> police_cleanup_module(void)
> {
> tcf_unregister_action(&act_police_ops);
> - rcu_barrier(); /* Wait for completion of call_rcu()'s (tcf_police_free_rcu) */
> }

Very nice side-effect of having common callback code. Seems worth doing
a review of other callers of rcu_barrier as well, to see if they still
need to do so.

- Josh Triplett
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