netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/5] net: Make rtnetlink infrastructure network namespace aware

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Date:	Sat, 29 Sep 2007 10:51:14 -0600
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Linux Containers <containers@...ts.osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] net: Make rtnetlink infrastructure network namespace aware

Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net> writes:

> I'm wondering why this receive queue processing on unlock is still
> necessary today, we don't do trylock in rtnetlink_rcv anymore, so
> all senders will simply wait until the lock is released and then
> process the queue.

Good question, I should probably look.  I was lazy and didn't go back
and audit why we were doing this.  I just coded a routine that I was
certain would work.  It does appear that we are processing the queue
with sk_data_read when we add a message, so this may be completely
unnecessary.  I will go back and look.  If we can remove this bit
things should be simpler.

Eric

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