Re: [PATCH] Improve behaviour of Netlink Sockets

[Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 09:50:58PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> 
> Previously netlink requests had overhead comparable to that of an
> ioctl.  Now you've added two full context switches to it.  There's
> gotta be a better way to fix this dead-lock.

Worse still, previously if a netlink request blocked indefinitely it
only did that in the context of the calling process.  Now it'll
dead-lock the entire system because you're using the generic work
queue.
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