netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/2] rhashtable: Add walk iterator primitives and use them in netlink

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Date:	Thu, 29 Jan 2015 14:42:46 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au
Cc:	tgraf@...g.ch, ying.xue@...driver.com, kaber@...sh.net,
	paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] rhashtable: Add walk iterator primitives and use
 them in netlink

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 10:19:50 +1100

> On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 10:20:40AM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote:
>> 
>> Here are the first two patches, one to add the primitives and one
>> to demonstrate its use in netlink.  In fact while testing this I
>> found that the existing netlink walking code is totally broken.
> 
> So this is a repost of the same thing.  These lockless iterators
> won't be usable by netfilter as it stands because it wants to do
> nested walks and also isn't currently lockless.
> 
> However, I'll wait for Patrick to post his pending patches to see
> what exactly he needs before implementing helpers for that case.

I'm holding off on this series for now.

Let me know if you want me to do something different.

Thanks.
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