Re: OOPS: Multipath routing 2.4.17

Julian Anastasov (ja@ssi.bg)
Sat, 2 Mar 2002 15:28:34 +0000 (GMT)


Hello,

On Sat, 2 Mar 2002 kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru wrote:

> > w = jiffies % fi->fib_power;
>
> power = fi->fib_power;
> barrier();
> if (power) ...
>
> Such thing are made in this way.

I hope you are sure about this solution for fib_select_multipath
because I'm not. IMO, the solution from Andi looks more correct
for the current scheduler.

What about the new scheduler (for 2.5?), of course, after
replacing the wrong write_lock() with spin_lock_bh(&fib_nh_powers) ?
This lock will be used only in fib_select_multipath because
fib_sync_{up,down} will not play with nh_power. It will protect
only nh_power and I hope the DEAD flag change will not make big
problems for fib_select_multipath.

> Alexey

Regards

--
Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>

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