On 08/29/2017 11:04 PM, David Ahern wrote:
> On 8/29/17 12:10 AM, Arkadi Sharshevsky wrote:
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>> On 08/28/2017 09:00 PM, David Ahern wrote:
>>> On 8/26/17 11:04 AM, Ido Schimmel wrote:
Regarding the silent abort, that's intentional. You can look at the same
code in v4.9 - when the c
On 8/29/17 12:10 AM, Arkadi Sharshevsky wrote:
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> On 08/28/2017 09:00 PM, David Ahern wrote:
>> On 8/26/17 11:04 AM, Ido Schimmel wrote:
>>> Regarding the silent abort, that's intentional. You can look at the same
>>> code in v4.9 - when the chain was still blocking - and you'll see that
>>> w
On 08/28/2017 09:00 PM, David Ahern wrote:
> On 8/26/17 11:04 AM, Ido Schimmel wrote:
>> Regarding the silent abort, that's intentional. You can look at the same
>> code in v4.9 - when the chain was still blocking - and you'll see that
>> we didn't propagate the error even then. This was discusse
On 08/28/2017 09:00 PM, David Ahern wrote:
> On 8/26/17 11:04 AM, Ido Schimmel wrote:
>> Regarding the silent abort, that's intentional. You can look at the same
>> code in v4.9 - when the chain was still blocking - and you'll see that
>> we didn't propagate the error even then. This was discusse
On 8/26/17 11:04 AM, Ido Schimmel wrote:
> Regarding the silent abort, that's intentional. You can look at the same
> code in v4.9 - when the chain was still blocking - and you'll see that
> we didn't propagate the error even then. This was discussed in the past
> and the conclusion was that user d
On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 10:04 AM, Ido Schimmel wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 01:26:07PM -0700, David Ahern wrote:
>> Jiri / Ido:
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> Regarding the silent abort, that's intentional. You can look at the same
> code in v4.9 - when the chain was still blocking - and you'll see that
> w
On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 01:26:07PM -0700, David Ahern wrote:
> Jiri / Ido:
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> I was looking at the mlxsw driver and the places it holds the rtnl lock.
> There are a lot of them and from an admittedly short review it seems
> like the rtnl is protecting changes to mlxsw data structures as opposed
>
Jiri / Ido:
I was looking at the mlxsw driver and the places it holds the rtnl lock.
There are a lot of them and from an admittedly short review it seems
like the rtnl is protecting changes to mlxsw data structures as opposed
to calling into the core networking stack. This is going to have huge
im
