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mac80211: Improve mpath state locking

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No need to take the mpath state lock when an mpath is removed.
Also, no need checking the lock when reading mpath flags.

Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Javier Cardona
2011-08-29 13:23:05 -07:00
committed by John W. Linville
parent ece1a2e7e8
commit f5e50cd075
2 changed files with 7 additions and 11 deletions
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@@ -80,7 +80,9 @@ enum mesh_deferred_task_flags {
* retry
* @discovery_retries: number of discovery retries
* @flags: mesh path flags, as specified on &enum mesh_path_flags
* @state_lock: mesh path state lock
* @state_lock: mesh path state lock used to protect changes to the
* mpath itself. No need to take this lock when adding or removing
* an mpath to a hash bucket on a path table.
* @is_gate: the destination station of this path is a mesh gate
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