netdev - Re: [patch 04/11][NETNS][IPV6] ip6_fib - add net to gc timer parameter

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Message-Id: <20080303.232907.120828308.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 03 Mar 2008 23:29:07 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	dlezcano@...ibm.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, benjamin.thery@...l.net
Subject: Re: [patch 04/11][NETNS][IPV6] ip6_fib - add net to gc timer
 parameter

From: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@...ibm.com>
Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2008 10:37:24 +0100

> The fib tables are now relative to the network namespace. When the 
> garbage collector timer expires, we must have a network namespace 
> parameter in order to retrieve the tables. For now this is the 
> init_net, but we should be able to have a timer per namespace and 
> use the timer callback parameter to pass the network namespace from 
> the expired timer.
> 
> The timer callback, fib6_run_gc, is actually used to be called 
> synchronously by some functions and asynchronously when the timer 
> expires.
> 
> When the timer expires, the delay specified for fib6_run_gc parameter
> is always zero. So, I changed fib6_run_gc to not be a timer callback
> but a function called by the timer callback and I added a timer callback
> where its work is just to retrieve from the data arg of the timer the 
> network namespace and call fib6_run_gc with zero expiring time and
> the network namespace parameters. That makes the code cleaner for the
> fib6_run_gc callers.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@...ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@...l.net>

Applied.
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