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From: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: "therbert@google.com" <therbert@google.com>,
	"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	"eric.dumazet@gmail.com" <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [net-2.6 PATCH] nete zero kobject in rx_queue_release
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 18:06:52 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CE1E73C.1000105@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101114.151529.183053743.davem@davemloft.net>

On 11/14/2010 3:15 PM, David Miller wrote:
> From: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
> Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 14:40:00 -0800
> 
>>> So we'll need something like:
>>>
>>>        if (atomic_dec_and_test(&first->count))
>>>                kfree(first);
>>>        else
>>>                /* clear everything except queue->first */
>>>
>>
>> The patches to get rid of the separate refcnt should obviate this
>> complexity.  Could just clear the queue in kobject release.
> 
> True but we'll still need a patch for older kernels.

OK Thanks. I'll have a stable patch and a net-2.6 patch soon.

-- John

  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-16  2:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-11 20:13 [net-2.6 PATCH] nete zero kobject in rx_queue_release John Fastabend
2010-11-12 21:08 ` David Miller
2010-11-14 22:40   ` Tom Herbert
2010-11-14 23:15     ` David Miller
2010-11-16  2:06       ` John Fastabend [this message]
2010-11-16  7:13         ` John Fastabend

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