netdev - Re: xfrm_state locking regression...

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Date:	Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:20:56 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au
Cc:	timo.teras@....fi, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: xfrm_state locking regression...

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 10:18:28 +1000

> On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 05:09:07PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> > What happens to all of the entries on the local gc_list which you
> > will be skipping when you break out of that last loop?
> > 
> > It looks like they will never get processed.
> 
> I made gc_list static, so they'll be processed when the GC task
> runs again.  Also whenever completed is incremented we schedule
> the GC task.

Thanks, I didn't catch that "static" bit :-)
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