Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] ipv6: Split from and expires field in dst_entry out of union [net-next]

From: Gao feng <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 17:31:26 +0800

On 2013/02/20 15:00, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-02-20 at 14:33 +0800, Gao feng wrote:
> 
>> How can we?
>> one usage of rt6_update_expires and rt6_set_expires
>> is changing rt6->dst.from to rt6->dst.expires, we should release the
>> already holded reference of rt6->dst.from.
>>
> 
> Just don't union the two fields, as Neil did.
> 
> Setting the dst.expires value should not change dst.from at all.
> 

Get it,it looks good to me.we can make sure dst->from doesn't
being operated at same time.

Thanks!