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Message-Id: <1270057677.26743.116.camel@bigi> Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 13:47:57 -0400 From: jamal <hadi@...erus.ca> To: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net> Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>, Timo Teras <timo.teras@....fi>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net> Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] xfrm: remove policy lock when accessing policy->walk.dead On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 18:41 +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote: > I agree with Herbert, the flush notification indicates that > the table is now empty, independant of its previous state. What purpose does it serve? As an example, if i delete an entry, the fact i deleted an entry is of interest to some manager in user space for the purpose of syncing. If i brought a link down, same thing. If i brought a link down that was already down - why would that be of interest to generate as an event? etc. cheers, jamal -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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