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Re: [PATCH v2] mac80211: use call_rcu() on sta deletion

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On Sun, 2012-09-09 at 14:43 +0300, Eliad Peller wrote:
> mac80211 calls synchronize_rcu() on sta deletion,
> which increase the roaming time significantly.
> 
> Convert it into a call_rcu() mechanism, in order
> to avoid blocking. Since some of the cleanup
> functions might sleep, schedule from the call_rcu
> callback a new work that will do the actual cleanup.
> 
> In order to make sure the cleanup occurs before
> the interface went down, flush local->workqueue
> on ieee80211_do_stop().

Applied.

johannes

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