From: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2017 09:10:04 -0800

> From: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
> 
> Using a reader-writer lock in fast path is silly, when we can
> instead use RCU or a seqlock.
> 
> For mlx4 hwstamp clock, a seqlock is the way to go, removing
> two atomic operations and false sharing. 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
> Cc: Tariq Toukan <[email protected]>

Tariq or someone else at Mellanox please review, this patch has been
rotting for 5 days in patchwork.

Thank you.

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