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From: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: <netdev@vger.kernel.org>, <shlomop@mellanox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net/neigh: move neigh cleanup routine to neigh_destroy
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 13:05:09 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F967AD5.3010807@mellanox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120424.005309.2292973770816115829.davem@davemloft.net>

On 4/24/2012 7:53 AM, David Miller wrote:
> With IPOIB, the neigh_cleanup purges references to the neigh when it 
> liberates the SKBs in the neigh resolution TX backlog during 
> ipoib_neigh_free(). Therefore, with your change, IPOIB neighs will 
> never be destroyed if they have any SKBs in their neigh resolution 
> queues. I'm not applying this, it's buggy. 

Oh yes indeed, so we will need to address that dependency too when 
coming to fix the ipoib neigh related races, thanks for spotting this over.

Or.

      reply	other threads:[~2012-04-24 10:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-23 15:34 [PATCH net] net/neigh: move neigh cleanup routine to neigh_destroy Or Gerlitz
2012-04-24  4:53 ` David Miller
2012-04-24 10:05   ` Or Gerlitz [this message]

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