On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 07:59:48AM -0400, Jamal Hadi Salim wrote:
> On 24/07/18 04:06 PM, Paolo Abeni wrote:
> > Each lockless action currently does its own RCU locking in ->act().
> > This is allows using plain RCU accessor, even if the context
> > is really RCU BH.
> > 
> > This change drops the per action RCU lock, replace the accessors
> > with _bh variant, cleans up a bit the surronding code and documents
> > the RCU status in the relevant header.
> > No functional nor performance change is intended.
> > 
> > The goal of this patch is clarifying that the RCU critical section
> > used by the tc actions extends up to the classifier's caller.
> > 
> 
> This and 2/5 seems to stand on their own merit.

So does 1/5, I think.

> 
> cheers,
> jamal

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