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Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 13:24:25 +0200 From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net> To: hadi@...erus.ca 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 jamal wrote: > 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. That's true. Since both pfkey and xfrm process messages synchronously, there shouldn't be any need for this. In fact I couldn't even find a single keying daemon that cares about this message. -- 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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