netdev - Re: Can we replace the msleep(250) in dev.c netdev_wait

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Message-Id: <20130129.154738.2296526527975433560.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 29 Jan 2013 15:47:38 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	greearb@...delatech.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Can we replace the msleep(250) in dev.c netdev_wait_allrefs?

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 12:45:30 -0800

> On Tue, 2013-01-29 at 15:31 -0500, David Miller wrote:
>> If you only notice some time in the future that something has hung in
>> this state, the original message could be lost.  Therefore, I
>> definitely prefer that this thing keeps barking into the logs
>> periodically.
> 
> Not sure we need the full stack, as it probably contains no useful
> context / information at this point.

That's true.
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