On Wed, 9 Dec 2020 00:18:11 -0600 Lijun Pan wrote: > Start to use the lockless version of netdev_notify_peers. > > Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiya...@microsoft.com> > Signed-off-by: Lijun Pan <l...@linux.ibm.com> > --- > drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c | 6 +++--- > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c b/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c > index d17bbc75f5e7..4e3dac7bb944 100644 > --- a/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c > +++ b/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c > @@ -2130,10 +2130,10 @@ static void netvsc_link_change(struct work_struct *w) > break; > } > > - rtnl_unlock(); > - > if (notify) > - netdev_notify_peers(net); > + __netdev_notify_peers(net); > + > + rtnl_unlock();
Looks like this code is only using this "notify" variable because it wanted to wait until unlock to call the function. I think you can now just call the helper where notify used to be set to true.
