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Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH] batman-adv: Don't remove interface with
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On Sunday 21 November 2010 20:54:28 Sven Eckelmann wrote:
> We call a lot of the netdevice code when holding if_list_lock which will
> spin the whole time. This is not necessary because we only want to
> protect the access to the list to be serialized. An extra queue can be
> used which hold all interfaces which should be removed and then use that
> queue without any locks for netdevice cleanup.

Applied in revision 1867.

Thanks,
Marek