Re: [PATCH net-next v12 1/5] net: Introduce generic failover module
- From
- Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
- Date
- 2018-05-26 07:43:32
- Reply to
- Stephen Hemminger, 2018-05-25
Sat, May 26, 2018 at 12:37:44AM CEST, stephen@networkplumber.org wrote:
On Thu, 24 May 2018 09:55:13 -0700 Sridhar Samudrala [off-list ref] wrote:quoted
+ spin_lock(&failover_lock);Since register is not in fast path, this should be a mutex?
I don't get it. Why would you prefer mutex over spinlock here?