netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH 5/9] ipv4: ipmr: move unres_queue and timer to per-namespace data

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Date:	Tue, 13 Apr 2010 04:10:14 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	kaber@...sh.net
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 5/9] ipv4: ipmr: move unres_queue and timer to
 per-namespace data

From: kaber@...sh.net
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 19:37:11 +0200

> From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
> 
> The unres_queue is currently shared between all namespaces. Following patches
> will additionally allow to create multiple multicast routing tables in each
> namespace. Having a single shared queue for all these users seems to excessive,
> move the queue and the cleanup timer to the per-namespace data to unshare it.
> 
> As a side-effect, this fixes a bug in the seq file iteration functions: the
> first entry returned is always from the current namespace, entries returned
> after that may belong to any namespace.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>

This looks good.
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