netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/2] rhashtable: Introduce rhashtable_walk

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Message-ID: <20150127094541.GC22262@casper.infradead.org>
Date:	Tue, 27 Jan 2015 09:45:41 +0000
From:	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, David.Laight@...LAB.COM,
	ying.xue@...driver.com, kaber@...sh.net,
	paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] rhashtable: Introduce rhashtable_walk_*

On 01/27/15 at 10:31am, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 09:42:16AM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > 
> > As otherwise we'd be looking at fixing the existing users (in
> > particular, nft_hash) properly which might take a lot more time.
> 
> I take that back.  Looks like my walkers would be no good for
> netfilter anyway since it wants to do nested walks, meaning no
> locks can be taken.
> 
> So I think I'll just have to tackle netfilter first in which case
> the walk function would be no use anyway since I could just fix
> netlink by itself.

OK. I'll wait for your netfilter approach before posting NLM_F_INTR
patches.
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