netdev - Re: [RFC] vxlan: convert remote list to list

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Date:	Tue, 4 Jun 2013 12:10:22 +0300
From:	Mike Rapoport <mike.rapoport@...ellosystems.com>
To:	David Stevens <dlstevens@...ibm.com>
Cc:	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, netdev-owner@...r.kernel.org,
	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
Subject: Re: [RFC] vxlan: convert remote list to list_rcu

On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 11:18 PM, David Stevens <dlstevens@...ibm.com> wrote:

>> 4. clean up the multi-dest tx code
>
> Everybody likes their own code, of course, but I think the original
> was cleaner. A vxlan_rdst was part of an fdb structure because all
> fdbs require a remote destination, while the clean-up changes that
> to a list which may then be NULL, and in my opinion is notably less
> clean. I don't know the reasoning for that-- perhaps some thread I
> missed?

Maybe this one:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/271383

> So, I guess I don't see what you're trying to fix here, other than
> preventing snoop updates on static entries, which I agree with.
>
>                                                         +-DLS
>



--
Sincerely yours,
Mike.
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