netdev - Re: [PATCH] udp: Introduce special NULL pointers for hlist termination

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Message-Id: <20081031.005131.158229955.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:51:31 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	dada1@...mosbay.com
Cc:	shemminger@...tta.com, paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, minyard@....org,
	benny+usenet@...rsen.dk, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	cl@...ux-foundation.org, a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl,
	johnpol@....mipt.ru, christian@...i.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] udp: Introduce special NULL pointers for hlist
 termination

From: Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 18:12:03 +0100

> More seriously Stephen, if the infrastructure is clean, and well
> tested on a relative simple case (UDP), it can then be deployed on a
> much more interesting protocol : TCP

I'm really looking forward to someone finally tackling that problem :)

> The moment we switch to RCU, we have to accept the pain of really
> understand what we did. Details are scary yes.

Agreed.
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