From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
To: yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] [IPV6] ADDRCONF: Convert addrconf_lock to RCU.
Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 17:40:11 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060505.174011.10378443.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060505.122452.46183936.yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
From: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 12:24:52 +0900 (JST)
> Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
It is critical that we free the inet6 device structure using an RCU
callback in order for this locking strategy to work.
An RCU head needs to be added to "struct inet6_dev", and
in6_dev_finish_destroy() will need to schedule the real kfree() call
via an RCU callback.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-06 0:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-05 3:24 [RFC PATCH] [IPV6] ADDRCONF: Convert addrconf_lock to RCU YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2006-05-05 4:08 ` Herbert Xu
2006-05-06 0:40 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2006-05-06 1:43 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
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