On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 12:19:51AM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > > I need to add a forceful flush mechanism to the flow cache that will > destroy all such references. Let us name this interface: > > void flow_cache_flush(struct flowi *key); > > It is defined to delete all flow cache entries matching given key. > It must be called after the tables that the "flow_resolve_t" callback > for this object will search. This means we'd invoke it from > xfrm_policy_kill() or similar. This appears to be difficult to implement. How is the flow cache going to know what matches a given key when it doesn't know what that key means? Perhaps a less ambitious version could work. What about void flow_cache_flush(void *object); which deletes all cache entries referring to object? -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
