Re: [CFT][PATCH] net: Delay default_device_exit_batch until no devices are unregistering
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2013-09-18 00:15:17
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2013-09-18 00:15:17
From: "Eric W. Biederman" <redacted> Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 16:41:37 -0700
List/count I don't much care but currently we don't have a list of all of the devices that are unregistering. The problem with this is that netdev_run_todo moves all of the devices to a local list, so they are only visible from a list_head on the stack. Which makes sense as we run this all in the context of rtnl_unlock.
And when that local list is processed (the while loop completes and has iterated over the entire list), either the global todo list is empty, or it is not empty. And the waked up code will check for this. I really don't see what the problem is.