Re: [PATCH 1/3] net: introduce a list of device addressesdev_addr_list

From: David Miller
Date: Wed Apr 15 2009 - 05:31:45 EST


From: Eric Dumazet <dada1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:27:50 +0200

> Since you obviously need a write lock here to be sure following
> can be done by one cpu only.
>
> You have same problem all over this patch.

RTNL semaphore is held across all modification operations.
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