From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Gautam Kachroo <gk@aristanetworks.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] iproute2 flush: handle larger tables and deleted entries
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 11:38:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A5C5233.4010007@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4e0db5bc0907130939k48b16256j8f60c786a7e5e44c@mail.gmail.com>
Gautam Kachroo wrote:
> use a new netlink socket when sending flush messages to avoid reading
> any pending data on the existing netlink socket.
>
> read all of the response from the netlink request -- this response can
> be split over multiple recv calls, pretty much one per netlink request
> message. ENOENT errors, which correspond to attempts to delete an
> already deleted entry, are ignored. Other errors are not ignored.
In which case would there be any pending data? From what I can see,
this can only happen when using batching, but in that case the
previous command should continue reading until it has received all
responses (which the netlink functions appear to be doing properly).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-14 9:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-13 16:39 [PATCH] iproute2 flush: handle larger tables and deleted entries Gautam Kachroo
2009-07-14 9:38 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2009-07-14 16:45 ` Gautam Kachroo
2009-07-15 15:19 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-07-15 17:50 ` Gautam Kachroo
2009-07-15 19:19 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-07-15 22:04 ` Gautam Kachroo
2009-08-21 0:08 ` Gautam Kachroo
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