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The driver updates its mirroring agents whenever it receives a notification about an event that can affect these. For example, the addition of a route might require the driver to change the egress port of an ERSPAN session. Currently, RTNL needs to be held when these agents are updates, so the driver either: 1. Calls directly into the mirroring code, in case RTNL is held 2. Schedules a work item that will take RTNL and call into the mirroring code Simplify this by having the mirroring code schedule the work item for the update instead of requiring callers to schedule a work item themselves. The conversion of the callers will be done in the next patch to make review easier. This will later allow us to remove RTNL from different parts of the driver. It will also allow us to only schedule the work item in case there are active mirroring agents, which is information private to the mirroring code. Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com> Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.