Re: [PATCH v2] netlink: Replace rhash_portid with bound

From	Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH v2] netlink: Replace rhash_portid with bound
Date	2015-09-24 05:50 +0200
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On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 11:41:16PM -0400, Tejun Heo wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 11:31:17AM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > No this isn't what happened.  My error was trying to see if there
> > is a way to do it without barriers.  In the end there wasn't.  This
> > has nothing to do with using primitives.
> 
> Hmmm... yeah, you can say that, but it still was a failure to
> recognize and apply the common pattern and what you're suggesting is
> deviating for no good reason.  It demands a lot of cognitive overhead
> for something which should be routine and makes the code a lot more
> fragile as a result.  Things like this make barrier usages difficult
> to understand and verify because it takes away a lot of ready-made
> cognitive tools.  So, let's please stick to the known pattern.

Well I disagree so let's leave it at that.
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Re: [PATCH v2] netlink: Replace rhash_portid with bound Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2015-09-22 18:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v2] netlink: Replace rhash_portid with bound Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2015-09-22 20:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v2] netlink: Replace rhash_portid with bound Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2015-09-22 21:00 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v2] netlink: Replace rhash_portid with bound Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2015-09-22 21:30 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v2] netlink: Replace rhash_portid with bound Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2015-09-22 22:00 +0200
          Re: [PATCH v2] netlink: Replace rhash_portid with bound Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2015-09-22 22:10 +0200
            Re: [PATCH v2] netlink: Replace rhash_portid with bound Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no> - 2015-09-22 22:50 +0200
              Re: [PATCH v2] netlink: Replace rhash_portid with bound Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2015-09-22 23:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v2] netlink: Replace rhash_portid with bound Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> - 2015-09-23 08:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v2] netlink: Replace rhash_portid with bound Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2015-09-23 18:00 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v2] netlink: Replace rhash_portid with bound Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> - 2015-09-24 04:40 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v2] netlink: Replace rhash_portid with bound Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2015-09-24 04:50 +0200
          Re: [PATCH v2] netlink: Replace rhash_portid with bound Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> - 2015-09-24 05:00 +0200
            Re: [PATCH v2] netlink: Replace rhash_portid with bound Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2015-09-24 05:10 +0200
              Re: [PATCH v2] netlink: Replace rhash_portid with bound Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> - 2015-09-24 05:30 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2] netlink: Replace rhash_portid with bound Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2015-09-24 05:30 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2] netlink: Replace rhash_portid with bound Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> - 2015-09-24 05:40 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2] netlink: Replace rhash_portid with bound Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2015-09-24 05:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2] netlink: Replace rhash_portid with bound Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> - 2015-09-24 05:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2] netlink: Replace rhash_portid with bound Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2015-09-24 05:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2] netlink: Replace rhash_portid with bound Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> - 2015-09-24 05:50 +0200

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