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Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:33:36 +1000 From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> To: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...il.com> Cc: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] pkt_sched: Destroy gen estimators under rtnl_lock(). On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 08:31:27AM +0000, Jarek Poplawski wrote: > > I'm not sure of your point... This patch is only to fix my yesterday's > doubt #1, and it doesn't introduce, I hope, any new live-lock > vulnerabity. So, if you mean doubt #2, there is needed a separate > patch, but I'm not sure there is a need to add a flag. I've thougt > about a counter in a Qdisc for consecutive requeues with > netif_schedule, so we could break after some limit. Of course, your > idea could be simpler and better, but if I could only see some code... What I mean is the extremely unlikely scenario of net_tx_action always failing on trylock because dev_deactivate has grabbed the lock to check whether net_tx_action has completed. Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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