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Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 19:12:43 +0200 From: Nicolas Schichan <nschichan@...ebox.fr> To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> CC: netdev@...r.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Cong Wang <amwang@...hat.com> Subject: Re: freeze with interface rename & SIOCGIFNAME On 06/25/2013 07:05 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote: > On Tue, 2013-06-25 at 09:57 -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote: > >> I am not sure it's needed, because the writer holds a spinlock and is >> not allowed to sleep or being preempted. >> >> If it's needed, there is a bug somewhere else... > > Oh well, its a write_seqcount, so no spinlock... That's what I was going to reply. Am I right in thinking that the process spinning on SIOCGIFNAME should be naturally be preempted by other tasks by the scheduler once its timeslice has expired or am I missing something ? -- Nicolas Schichan Freebox SAS -- 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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