netdev - Re: [PATCH 3/3] netlink: Lock out table resizes while dumping Netlink sockets

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Date:	Wed, 21 Jan 2015 20:58:37 +1100
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
Cc:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>, davem@...emloft.net,
	paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, ying.xue@...driver.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] netlink: Lock out table resizes while dumping
 Netlink sockets

On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 09:49:28AM +0000, Thomas Graf wrote:
>
> An entry can move between different tables and thus chains need to be
> marked to identify what list a lookup ended up searching in. It's not
> the nulls marker itself that is needed, it's the bits in the last next
> pointer identifying the list that the nulls marker allows to be used
> which are essential.

Can you describe in more detail how it's going to be used? I don't
see how I could use the bit if you need it to indicate the end of
the list.

Cheers,
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