* parallelized this function, so drop lock for the > > Parallelizing? Else the sentence doesn't parse for me. :-)
Hi Sergei, In a separate series I parallelized device_shutdown(), see: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180516024004.28977-1-pasha.tatas...@oracle.com But, this particular patch should be dropped, as discussed in this thread: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180503035931.22439-2-pasha.tatas...@oracle.com Alexander Duyck, made a point that a generic RTNL scalability fix should be done. This particular patch might introduce a race, since it relies on assumption that RTNL is not needed in this place because ixgbe_close() does not have it, but Alexander Duyck, says that the callers of ixgbe_close() are assumed to own this lock. Thank you, Pavel
