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[PATCH] net: ipv6: Remove unneccessary comments

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This comments are obsolete and should go, as there are no set of rules per
CPU anymore.

Signed-off-by: Arushi Singhal <arushisinghal19971997@gmail.com>
---
 net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c | 9 ---------
 1 file changed, 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c b/net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c
index 1e15c54fd5e2..e52234a111d6 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c
@@ -51,15 +51,6 @@ void *ip6t_alloc_initial_table(const struct xt_table *info)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ip6t_alloc_initial_table);
 
-/*
-   We keep a set of rules for each CPU, so we can avoid write-locking
-   them in the softirq when updating the counters and therefore
-   only need to read-lock in the softirq; doing a write_lock_bh() in user
-   context stops packets coming through and allows user context to read
-   the counters or update the rules.
-
-   Hence the start of any table is given by get_table() below.  */
-
 /* Returns whether matches rule or not. */
 /* Performance critical - called for every packet */
 static inline bool
-- 
2.11.0

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[PATCH] net: ipv6: Remove unneccessary comments Arushi Singhal <arushisinghal19971997@gmail.com> - 2017-04-08 18:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] net: ipv6: Remove unneccessary comments Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> - 2017-04-08 22:20 +0200

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