From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 19:14:46 +1000 On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 01:54:43AM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > See net/core/dst.c, something like that. A periodically scanning > process which watches for all non-self references to disappear. OK that all looks good, but what is the advantage of this over the current approach? You don't need all of this magic cpu mask stuff, it just magically takes care of itself: 1) cpus going up just init their table and start the timer 2) cpus going down completely flush their local table and delete the timer - : 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