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, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt - 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
