Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] xfrm: remove policy lock when accessing policy->walk.dead

From: jamal <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 09:06:13 -0400

On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 19:03 +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:

> This seems to be bogus to me.  Just because the DB was empty
> before the flush doesn't mean that the flush didn't happen.

Herbert, If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it,
does it make a sound? ;->
A flush event is meant to be a signal to user space that what
was once a non-empty table is now empty. 
This is a consistent definition of the semantics everywhere tables
are flushed (not just in Linux)..

What makes the SPD and SAD speacial?

cheers,
jamal