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List:       openvswitch-dev
Subject:    [ovs-dev] [PATCH 3/3] vport-internal: Set vport to NULL when detaching.
From:       jesse () nicira ! com (Jesse Gross)
Date:       2010-07-30 20:47:34
Message-ID: AANLkTim3RadZDugtuu0+OAWLgTcAazcrCYqrnr=DiaWm () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 05:38:55PM -0700, Jesse Gross wrote:
> > 'struct net_device' is refcounted and can stick around for quite a
> > while if someone is still holding a reference to it.  However, we
> > free the vport that it is attached to in the next RCU grace period
> > after detach.  This assigns the vport to NULL on detach and adds
> > appropriate checks.
>
> Seems reasonable.  Thank you.
>

Thanks for the review; I pushed this set out.
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