From: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
To: "Banerjee, Debabrata" <dbanerje@akamai.com>
Cc: Debabrata Banerjee <dbavatar@gmail.com>,
"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>,
Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] ipv6: do not hold route table lock when send ndisc probe
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 17:11:12 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1345713072.19963.1.camel@cr0> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CC5A7885.7DED%dbanerje@akamai.com>
On Wed, 2012-08-22 at 12:04 -0400, Banerjee, Debabrata wrote:
> Thanks for the patch. We're discussing how to reach to this code properly
> in the lab now. Although we will probably have to modify so it's compliant
> with the RFC, by checking if a ndisc_send_ns() has already been queued
> within rt->rt6i_idev->cnf.rtr_probe_interval, otherwise it could flood the
> network with neighbor discoveries.
>
Thanks for testing, I can't reproduce the deadlock you reported here.
Note that the original code didn't check rtr_probe_interval either.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-23 9:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-17 7:11 [PATCH 1/2] ipv6: do not hold route table lock when send ndisc probe Cong Wang
2012-08-17 7:11 ` [PATCH 2/2] ipv6: remove some useless RCU read lock Cong Wang
2012-08-17 18:54 ` [PATCH 1/2] ipv6: do not hold route table lock when send ndisc probe Debabrata Banerjee
2012-08-20 12:15 ` Cong Wang
2012-08-21 3:44 ` Cong Wang
2012-08-22 16:04 ` Banerjee, Debabrata
2012-08-23 9:11 ` Cong Wang [this message]
2012-08-23 16:10 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-08-24 9:15 ` Cong Wang
2012-08-24 9:44 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-08-24 10:45 ` Cong Wang
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