dst gc related code has been removed in commit 5b7c9a8ff828, so those comments are no longer useful.
Signed-off-by: Duan Jiong <jd...@fiberhome.com> --- net/core/dst.c | 17 ----------------- 1 file changed, 17 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/core/dst.c b/net/core/dst.c index a6c47da..a710d39 100644 --- a/net/core/dst.c +++ b/net/core/dst.c @@ -25,23 +25,6 @@ #include <net/dst.h> #include <net/dst_metadata.h> -/* - * Theory of operations: - * 1) We use a list, protected by a spinlock, to add - * new entries from both BH and non-BH context. - * 2) In order to keep spinlock held for a small delay, - * we use a second list where are stored long lived - * entries, that are handled by the garbage collect thread - * fired by a workqueue. - * 3) This list is guarded by a mutex, - * so that the gc_task and dst_dev_event() can be synchronized. - */ - -/* - * We want to keep lock & list close together - * to dirty as few cache lines as possible in __dst_free(). - * As this is not a very strong hint, we dont force an alignment on SMP. - */ int dst_discard_out(struct net *net, struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb) { kfree_skb(skb); -- 2.9.3