Re: Scalability of interface creation and deletion

Alex Bligh
2011-05-08T08:08:31Z

--On 7 May 2011 20:45:07 -0700 Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> wrote:

> Well, I'd hope to get a netlink message about the device being deleted,
> and
> after that, be able to create another one with the same name, etc.
>
> Whether the memory is actually freed in the kernel or not wouldn't matter
> to me...

Provided the former para is always done, I can't actually think of a case
where the caller would /ever/ care about the latter (save perhaps
a final shutdown of the whole net subsystem).

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Alex Bligh