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Re: tx_timeout and timer serialisation

To: andrewm@xxxxxxxxxx (Andrew Morton)
Subject: Re: tx_timeout and timer serialisation
From: kuznet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 22:56:44 +0400 (MSK DST)
Cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <392DB53B.2EB21297@xxxxxxxxxx> from "Andrew Morton" at May 25, 0 11:20:27 pm
Sender: owner-netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
Hello!

> I posted a patch to the async del_timer() behaviour onto linux-kernel
> yesterday.
> 
> I think we need to change the default behaviour of del_timer() to be
> async, and then run around and fix the resulting deadlocks. If we accept
> anything less, we have tens or even hundreds of subtle bugs.
> 
> I'd be very interested in your opinions.

Seems, I like this. 8)

Only I still do not undertsnad how it works. 8)
I am lost in these patches... Could you prepare one large
patch doing all of the described things?

Alexey

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