On Thu, 1 Sep 2016 15:25:14 +0200 David Lebrun <david.leb...@uclouvain.be> wrote:
> On 08/31/2016 07:10 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > Since these are for control operations why a mutex? > > I am not sure to understand the question. The spinlock is used on the > RCU write side of the namespace-wide parameters to prevent concurrent > writes. > > David > If this lock is only being acquired in user context, then use a mutex instead.
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