From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: ebiederm@xmission.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, hadi@cyberus.ca, dlezcano@fr.ibm.com,
adobriyan@gmail.com, kaber@trash.net, opurdila@ixiacom.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/20] net: NETDEV_UNREGISTER_PERNET -> NETDEV_UNREGISTER_BATCH
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:49:17 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091130.144917.233710214.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1259545577-7466-1-git-send-email-ebiederm@xmission.com>
From: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2009 17:45:58 -0800
> Additionally it appears that we moved the route cache flush after
> the final synchronize_net, which seems wrong and there was no
> explanation. So I have restored the original location of the final
> synchronize_net.
I think the idea was that it's important for all pending stale
RCU references to the device to be gone before we send out the
notifier. And that's why the synchronize_net() comes first.
This needs more thought.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-30 22:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-30 1:45 [PATCH 01/20] net: NETDEV_UNREGISTER_PERNET -> NETDEV_UNREGISTER_BATCH Eric W. Biederman
2009-11-30 1:46 ` [PATCH 07/20] net: Simplify the bond drivers pernet operations Eric W. Biederman
2009-11-30 1:46 ` [PATCH 08/20] net: Simplify vlan " Eric W. Biederman
2009-11-30 1:46 ` [PATCH 09/20] net: Simplify af_key " Eric W. Biederman
2009-11-30 1:46 ` [PATCH 10/20] net: Simplify conntrack_proto_dccp " Eric W. Biederman
2009-11-30 1:46 ` [PATCH 11/20] net: Simplify conntrack_proto_gre " Eric W. Biederman
2009-11-30 1:46 ` [PATCH 12/20] net: Simplify ppp_generic " Eric W. Biederman
2009-11-30 1:46 ` [PATCH 13/20] net: Simplify pppoe " Eric W. Biederman
2009-11-30 1:46 ` [PATCH 14/20] net: Simplify pppol2tp " Eric W. Biederman
2009-11-30 1:46 ` [PATCH 15/20] net: Simplify phonet " Eric W. Biederman
2009-11-30 1:46 ` [PATCH 16/20] net: Simplify ip_gre " Eric W. Biederman
2009-11-30 1:46 ` [PATCH 17/20] net: Simplify ipip " Eric W. Biederman
2009-11-30 1:46 ` [PATCH 18/20] net: Simplify ip6_tunnel " Eric W. Biederman
2009-11-30 1:46 ` [PATCH 19/20] net: Simplify ipip6 aka sit " Eric W. Biederman
2009-11-30 1:46 ` [PATCH 20/20] net: remove [un]register_pernet_gen_... and update the docs Eric W. Biederman
2009-11-30 12:08 ` [PATCH 01/20] net: NETDEV_UNREGISTER_PERNET -> NETDEV_UNREGISTER_BATCH Octavian Purdila
2009-11-30 19:00 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-11-30 19:25 ` Octavian Purdila
2009-11-30 22:49 ` David Miller [this message]
2009-11-30 23:42 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-11-30 23:55 ` David Miller
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