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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Hi Khadem,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Please do not use `sorry for any confusion`. Very clearly, I shared what works and why your case is different.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi Vipin, <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">sorry for any confusion. I am only trying to explain that these patches are in its final state (waiting to upstream).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">[VV] it is not about the state, but of the quality and state.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">You have provided your valuable insights and <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am very thankful for that. There was much discussion about these patches from start to finish. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Already mentioned that with Stephen and other community members, the discussion was started earlier and I have provided all the information
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<p class="MsoNormal">to you in a singla email. <o:p></o:p></p>
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to prevent the crashes at PMD level, but it was not possible to <br>
add checks in each PMD. Then we tried to add safety checks <br>
in the ethdev layer, and it was not suitable as with primary closing<br>
all reference to device information (pointers) would lead to crashes." <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">[VV] I did also share I checked these eemails, none of them discussed use for multi process communication as a trigger or why it is not useful.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:stephen@networkplumber.org">@Stephen Hemminger</a> agreed to add a primary-secondary monitoring mechanism. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am always open to healthy conversation!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">I will rest it here, I clearly understand your previous content `</span> The community agrees with the current solution. `<o:p></o:p></p>
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