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From: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
To: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-sctp@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sctp: Add RCU protection to assoc->transport_addr_list
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2012 18:44:33 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121206184433.GE16122@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50C0E585.1080701@gmail.com>

On 12/06/12 at 01:35pm, Vlad Yasevich wrote:
> We may want to mark transports as dead sooner.  Probably right about
> the time we pull them off the list.

We mark it dead in sctp_transport_free() which is called at the
end of sctp_assoc_rm_peer(). Do you want to mark it dead at the
beginning of sctp_assoc_rm_peer() as well? (We still need to
mark in sctp_transport_free() anyway).

> When displaying, we may want to
> look at transport->dead, and skip them.  It will reduce the probability
> that we would be looking at a transport that's about to go away.

Agreed.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-12-06 18:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-06 18:15 [PATCH] sctp: Add RCU protection to assoc->transport_addr_list Thomas Graf
2012-12-06 18:35 ` Vlad Yasevich
2012-12-06 18:44   ` Thomas Graf [this message]
2012-12-06 18:57     ` Vlad Yasevich
2012-12-06 19:08       ` Thomas Graf
2012-12-06 19:14         ` Vlad Yasevich
2012-12-06 19:28           ` Thomas Graf

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