From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] ipv6: use timer pending
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:16:15 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <488518BF.1090207@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080721192919.971385103@vyatta.com>
Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> This fixes the bridge reference count problem and cleanups ipv6 FIB timer management.
> Don't use expires field, because it is not a proper way to test,
> instead use timer_pending().
I patched this into my 2.6.25, and it does not seem to help
my refcount problem. I did not apply any of your other
patches as it seemed they were mostly cleanups.
This is not to say that this patch is wrong...but
it seems we'll have to keep looking for other problems
as well.
Thanks,
Ben
--
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-21 23:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-21 19:28 [PATCH 0/6] IPV6 related gc bug + cleanups Stephen Hemminger
2008-07-21 19:28 ` [PATCH 1/6] ipv6: use timer pending Stephen Hemminger
2008-07-21 20:21 ` David Miller
2008-07-21 23:16 ` Ben Greear [this message]
2008-07-22 19:04 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-07-22 19:10 ` Ben Greear
2008-07-23 0:35 ` Ben Greear
2008-07-21 19:28 ` [PATCH 2/6] netns: dont alloc ipv6 fib timer list Stephen Hemminger
2008-07-21 20:26 ` David Miller
2008-07-21 20:30 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-07-21 20:33 ` David Miller
2008-07-21 20:44 ` [PATCH 2/3] netns: timer allocation Stephen Hemminger
2008-07-21 20:47 ` David Miller
2008-07-21 21:07 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-07-21 23:28 ` David Miller
2008-07-22 2:20 ` [PATCH 2/6] netns: dont alloc ipv6 fib timer list Daniel Lezcano
2008-07-21 19:28 ` [PATCH 3/6] ipv6: use round_jiffies Stephen Hemminger
2008-07-21 19:28 ` [PATCH 4/6] ipv6: use spin_trylock_bh Stephen Hemminger
2008-07-21 19:28 ` [PATCH 5/6] ipv6: use kcalloc Stephen Hemminger
2008-07-21 19:28 ` [PATCH 6/6] ipv6: icmp6_dst_gc return change Stephen Hemminger
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