On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 10:11:10 +1100 Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 03:05:54PM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > Plan B: > > 1. Use p->br (the back pointer) as the RCU sentinel > > A thought just came to mind. What about adding a dead flag (p->dead)? > That means you won't have to carry around all those extra pointers. > > So on the deleting path, you set p->dead, wait for the state to roll > over, and proceed with the deletion. > > Cheers, Or could use STP state, but the extra pointers aren't that much anyway. -- Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OSDL http://developer.osdl.org/~shemminger - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
