linux/include
Eric W. Biederman ce16c5337a netns: Remove net_alive
It turns out that net_alive is unnecessary, and the original problem
that led to it being added was simply that the icmp code thought
it was a network device and wound up being unable to handle packets
while there were still packets in the network namespace.

Now that icmp and tcp have been fixed to properly register themselves
this problem is no longer present and we have a stronger guarantee
that packets will not arrive in a network namespace then that provided
by net_alive in netif_receive_skb.  So remove net_alive allowing
packet reception run a little faster.

Additionally document the strong reason why network namespace cleanup
is safe so that if something happens again someone else will have
a chance of figuring it out.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-22 19:54:50 -08:00
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acpi ACPI: Enable bit 11 in _PDC to advertise hw coord 2009-02-07 00:41:14 -05:00
asm-arm
asm-frv net: new user space API for time stamping of incoming and outgoing packets 2009-02-15 22:43:33 -08:00
asm-generic
asm-h8300
asm-m32r net: new user space API for time stamping of incoming and outgoing packets 2009-02-15 22:43:33 -08:00
asm-mn10300 net: new user space API for time stamping of incoming and outgoing packets 2009-02-15 22:43:33 -08:00
crypto crypto: shash - Fix tfm destruction 2009-02-05 16:51:25 +11:00
drm drm/i915: add fence register management to execbuf 2009-02-08 21:38:02 +10:00
keys
linux netlink: add NETLINK_BROADCAST_ERROR socket option 2009-02-20 01:01:08 -08:00
math-emu
media Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-2.6 2009-02-02 19:26:06 -08:00
mtd headers_check fix: mtd/inftl-user.h 2009-01-31 00:13:34 +05:30
net netns: Remove net_alive 2009-02-22 19:54:50 -08:00
pcmcia
rdma net: replace __constant_{endian} uses in net headers 2009-02-14 22:58:35 -08:00
rxrpc
scsi
sound headers_check fix: sound/hdsp.h 2009-01-31 00:13:56 +05:30
trace
video atyfb: fix CONFIG_ namespace violations 2009-02-05 12:56:48 -08:00
xen
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