Re: [PATCH -rt] Revert "net: use synchronize_rcu_expedited()"

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>]

Em Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 07:18:01AM -0700, Eric Dumazet escreveu:
> On Tue, 2015-10-27 at 07:31 -0500, Josh Cartwright wrote:
> 
> > Okay, yes, I like the first suggestion better as well, I've included a
> > patch below that does just that.  I hope you don't mind me turning it
> > into a Suggested-by :).
> > 
> > Thanks for taking a look!
> >   Josh
> 
> 
> > @@ -6969,7 +6969,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(free_netdev);
> >  void synchronize_net(void)
> >  {
> >  	might_sleep();
> > -	if (rtnl_is_locked())
> > +	if (rtnl_is_locked() && !IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT_FULL))
> >  		synchronize_rcu_expedited();
> >  	else
> >  		synchronize_rcu();
> 
> No objection from me. Thanks.
> 
> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>

The first suggestion, with it disabled by default seems to be the most
flexible tho, i.e, Paul's original message plus the boot parameter line:

Alternatively, a boot-time option could be used:

int some_rt_boot_parameter = CONFIG_SYNC_NET_DEFAULT;

        if (rtnl_is_locked() && !some_rt_boot_parameter)
                synchronize_rcu_expedited();
        else
                synchronize_rcu();

Then RT oriented kernel .config files would have CONFIG_SYNC_NET_DEFAULT
set to 1, while upstream would have this default to 0.

RT oriented kernel users could try using this in some scenarios where
networking is not the critical path.

- Arnaldo