From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Graf Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] rhashtable: Introduce rhashtable_walk_* Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 09:45:41 +0000 Message-ID: <20150127094541.GC22262@casper.infradead.org> References: <063D6719AE5E284EB5DD2968C1650D6D1CAD2C12@AcuExch.aculab.com> <20150126222259.GC30116@gondor.apana.org.au> <20150126.143613.1798698028405169123.davem@davemloft.net> <20150126224216.GA30551@gondor.apana.org.au> <20150126233100.GA31108@gondor.apana.org.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: David Miller , David.Laight@ACULAB.COM, ying.xue@windriver.com, kaber@trash.net, paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org To: Herbert Xu Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150126233100.GA31108@gondor.apana.org.au> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netfilter-devel.vger.kernel.org On 01/27/15 at 10:31am, Herbert Xu wrote: > On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 09:42:16AM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote: > > > > As otherwise we'd be looking at fixing the existing users (in > > particular, nft_hash) properly which might take a lot more time. > > I take that back. Looks like my walkers would be no good for > netfilter anyway since it wants to do nested walks, meaning no > locks can be taken. > > So I think I'll just have to tackle netfilter first in which case > the walk function would be no use anyway since I could just fix > netlink by itself. OK. I'll wait for your netfilter approach before posting NLM_F_INTR patches.