netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/2] ipv6: do not hold route table lock when send ndisc probe

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Date:	Thu, 23 Aug 2012 17:11:12 +0800
From:	Cong Wang <amwang@...hat.com>
To:	"Banerjee, Debabrata" <dbanerje@...mai.com>
Cc:	Debabrata Banerjee <dbavatar@...il.com>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] ipv6: do not hold route table lock when send ndisc
 probe

On Wed, 2012-08-22 at 12:04 -0400, Banerjee, Debabrata wrote:
> Thanks for the patch. We're discussing how to reach to this code properly
> in the lab now. Although we will probably have to modify so it's compliant
> with the RFC, by checking if a ndisc_send_ns() has already been queued
> within rt->rt6i_idev->cnf.rtr_probe_interval, otherwise it could flood the
> network with neighbor discoveries.
> 

Thanks for testing, I can't reproduce the deadlock you reported here.

Note that the original code didn't check rtr_probe_interval either.


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