netdev - Re: fib_hash removal

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Message-ID: <20070315091544.GB1671@ff.dom.local>
Date:	Thu, 15 Mar 2007 10:15:44 +0100
From:	Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...pl>
To:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Robert.Olsson@...a.slu.se, tgr@...g.ch
Subject: Re: fib_hash removal

On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 08:43:59AM +0100, Patrick McHardy wrote:
...
> > On 14-03-2007 23:49, Patrick McHardy wrote:
...
> >>BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at mm/slab.c:3032
> >>in_atomic():1, irqs_disabled():0
...
> Yes, Robert already sent me a patch to remove the bogus preempt_disable,
> but IIRC it was there to make sure changes to the tree don't interfere
> with packet processing, so we might need to do something else. I'll try
> to look into it later today.
> 

BTW: it seems fib_tree wasn't used too much, so probably,
before killing fib_hash, fib_tree should be made Kconfig
default for some time.

Jarek P.
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