Re: [PATCH Round 2 0/2][RFC] Network Event Notifier Mechanism

[David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: Steve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 10:02:19 -0500

> For the RDMA kernel subsystem, however, we still need a specific event.
> We need both the old and new dst_entry struct ptrs to figure out which
> active connections were using the old dst_entry and should be updated to
> use the new dst_entry.

This change isn't truly atomic from a kernel standpoint either.

The new dst won't be selected by the socket until later,
when the socket tries to send something, notices the old dst
is obsolete, and looks up a new one.

Your code could do the same thing.