[ovs-dev] [PATCH net-next v2 1/2] genl: Allow concurrent genl callbacks.

David Miller davem at davemloft.net
Mon Apr 22 22:55:21 UTC 2013


From: Pravin Shelar <pshelar at nicira.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 13:41:41 -0700

> Therefore scatchpad in SKB is protected and parallel netlink dump operations
> can go only on different netlink sockets.

What about configuration changes running in parallel with the dump?

You must synchronize with those too, otherwise protecting the
intra-dump state is meaningless since the underlying objects
can change underneath the dump.



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