From: ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Eric W. Biederman) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 08:02:57 -0800 > > It turns out that net_alive is unnecessary, and the original problem > that led to it being added was simply that the icmp code thought > it was a network device and wound up being unable to handle packets > while there were still packets in the network namespace. > > Now that icmp and tcp have been fixed to properly register themselves > this problem is no longer present and we have a stronger guarantee > that packets will not arrive in a network namespace then that provided > by net_alive in netif_receive_skb. So remove net_alive allowing > packet reception run a little faster. > > Additionally document the strong reason why network namespace cleanup > is safe so that if something happens again someone else will have > a chance of figuring it out. > > Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Also applied, thanks Eric. _______________________________________________ Containers mailing list Containers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/containers
