> I think it should be in netdev_unregister_kobject().  But that would
> only get rid of one of the two calls to synchronize_rcu() in the 
> unregister_netdev.

Would be already an improvement.

> The other synchronize_rcu() is for qdisc's and not sure if that one can
> be removed?

The standard way to remove such calls is to set a "deleted" flag in the object,
then check and ignore such objects in the reader and finally remove the object 
with
call_rcu

I have not checked if that is really feasible for qdiscs.

-Andi
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