From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org,
"Lucian Adrian Grijincu" <lucian.grijincu@gmail.com>,
Vlad Dogaru <ddvlad@rosedu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: add dev_close_many
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 10:04:47 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101213100447.50f77f3b@nehalam> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201012131952.39648.opurdila@ixiacom.com>
On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 19:52:39 +0200
Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com> wrote:
> From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
> Date: Monday 13 December 2010, 19:32:21
>
> > With a message based interface, there shouldn't be a need for this.
> > Just have one thread sending requests in user space, and one receiving
> > the ACK's.
>
> Sorry, you lost me here :) There is no need for the kernel thread / workqueue
> or not even for dev_close_many?
I assume the need for dev_close_many is coming from a user space application?
I expect that for this kind of special need, you would be better off not
using the normal iproute utilities and instead have a custom device manager
that is doing netlink directly.
Rather than doing synchronous send request and wait for ack. The utility
could use a sender and collector thread.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-13 18:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-13 14:18 [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: add dev_close_many Octavian Purdila
2010-12-13 16:52 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-12-13 17:23 ` Octavian Purdila
2010-12-13 17:32 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-12-13 17:52 ` Octavian Purdila
2010-12-13 18:04 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2010-12-13 20:54 ` Octavian Purdila
2010-12-13 23:34 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-12-13 17:54 ` David Miller
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