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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] ipv6: move DAD and addrconf_verify processing to workqueue
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 14:20:04 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140325142004.7507d310@samsung-9> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140325080301.GA22086@order.stressinduktion.org>

On Tue, 25 Mar 2014 09:03:01 +0100
Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> wrote:

>  
> -static void addrconf_verify(unsigned long foo)
> +static void addrconf_verify_rtnl(void)
>  {
>  	unsigned long now, next, next_sec, next_sched;
>  	struct inet6_ifaddr *ifp;
>  	int i;
>  
> +	ASSERT_RTNL();
> +
>  	rcu_read_lock_bh();
>  	spin_lock(&addrconf_verify_lock);

Since RTNL is now held in addrconf_verify(), is addrconf_verify_lock is not needed.

Since RTNL is held, rcu is not needed either.

Also, I would skip the wrapper (addrconf_verify_rtnl) and just
put it all in addrconf_verify_work

  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-25 21:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-17 23:18 [PATCH net] ipv6: fix RTNL assert fail in DAD Stephen Hemminger
2014-03-18  0:29 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2014-03-19  0:54   ` Stephen Hemminger
2014-03-19  4:17     ` David Miller
2014-03-19  6:58       ` Stephen Hemminger
2014-03-19 17:53         ` David Miller
2014-03-19 22:44           ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2014-03-20  3:52             ` David Miller
2014-03-20  6:38               ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2014-03-23  2:03 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2014-03-25  8:03   ` [PATCH net] ipv6: move DAD and addrconf_verify processing to workqueue Hannes Frederic Sowa
2014-03-25 21:20     ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2014-03-26  0:00       ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2014-03-26  6:17         ` [PATCH v2 " Hannes Frederic Sowa
2014-03-27 17:15           ` David Miller
2014-03-27 17:28             ` [PATCH v3 " Hannes Frederic Sowa
2014-03-28 20:57               ` David Miller

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