netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/9] tipc: resolve message disordering problem

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Date:	Thu, 05 Feb 2015 16:00:35 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jon.maloy@...csson.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, paul.gortmaker@...driver.com,
	erik.hugne@...csson.com, ying.xue@...driver.com, maloy@...jonn.com,
	tipc-discussion@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/9] tipc: resolve message disordering problem

From: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@...csson.com>
Date: Thu,  5 Feb 2015 08:36:35 -0500

> When TIPC receives messages from multi-threaded device drivers it may
> occasionally deliver messages to their destination sockets in the wrong
> order. This happens despite correct resequencing at the link layer,
> because the upcall path from link to socket is not protected by any
> locks.
> 
> These commits solve this problem by introducing an 'input' message
> queue in each link, through which messages must be delivered to the
> upper layers.

Looks good, series applied, thanks Jon.
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