netdev - Re: regression due to "flush SAD/SPD generate false events"

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Message-Id: <1266526416.3879.109.camel@bigi>
Date:	Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:53:36 -0500
From:	jamal <hadi@...erus.ca>
To:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: regression due to "flush SAD/SPD generate false events"

On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 20:55 +0200, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:

> I'd expect flushing empty SAD/SPD to be exact nops. :^)

Agree - that is a better alternative.
I was hoping returning an error code of 0 will do that.
But that triggers the EAGAIN you saw. It doesnt trigger
an EAGAIN for the netlink side (and it is a nop there).
Let me look at it. Clearly the EAGAIN is causing the 
latency.

cheers,
jamal

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