On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 2:25 PM, Pravin B Shelar <[email protected]> wrote:
> Currently OVS uses combination of genl and rtnl lock to protect
> datapath state.  This was done due to networking stack locking.
> But this has complicated locking and there are few lock ordering
> issues with new tunneling protocols.
> Following patch simplifies locking by introducing new ovs mutex
> and now this lock is used to protect entire ovs state.
>
> Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <[email protected]>

Acked-by: Jesse Gross <[email protected]>

Can you also provide a patch that applies to the upstream tree?
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