netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/12] L2 network namespace (v3): current network namespace operations

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Message-ID: <m1ejps78ws.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>
Date:	Thu, 18 Jan 2007 06:37:39 -0700
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	Dmitry Mishin <dim@...nvz.org>
Cc:	containers@...ts.osdl.org, alexey@...ru, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	saw@...ru
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/12] L2 network namespace (v3): current network namespace operations

Dmitry Mishin <dim@...nvz.org> writes:

> On Wednesday 17 January 2007 23:16, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> Dmitry Mishin <dim@...nvz.org> writes:
>> 
>> > Added functions and macros required to operate with network namespaces.
>> > They are required in order to switch network namespace for incoming packets
> and
>> > to not extend current network interface by additional network namespace
> argue.
>> 
>> Is exec_net only used in interrupt context?
> I tried to do so.
>
>> Or how do you ensure a sleeping function does not get called and the
>> kernel process comes back on another cpu?
> Seems that I forgot to remove it's usage at least in one place - in
> clone_net_ns(). If you caught more, please, let me know. 

Sure.  It was not clear from what I saw of the patch it was intended to
be restricted to only interrupt context.  So if figured I would ask if
that was what you meant.

Eric
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