From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
To: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>,
Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>,
Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>,
netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [nf PATCH 2/5] netfilter: nf_tables: Add locking for NFT_MSG_GETRULE_RESET requests
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2023 13:41:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230927114133.GA17767@breakpoint.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZRLjs5Rv91mJWbC0@orbyte.nwl.cc>
Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc> wrote:
> > However, this is stalling writers and I don't think we need this
> > according to the problem description.
>
> ACK. Maybe Florian has a case in mind which requires to serialize reset
> and commit?
No, spinlock is fine too, concurrent resets will just burn more cycles.
I did not think we'd have frequent resets which is why I suggegested
reuse of the existing lock, thats all.
No objections to new mutex or spinlock.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-09-27 11:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-09-23 1:38 [nf PATCH 0/5] Introduce locking for reset requests Phil Sutter
2023-09-23 1:38 ` [nf PATCH 1/5] netfilter: nf_tables: Don't allocate nft_rule_dump_ctx Phil Sutter
2023-09-23 1:38 ` [nf PATCH 2/5] netfilter: nf_tables: Add locking for NFT_MSG_GETRULE_RESET requests Phil Sutter
2023-09-23 11:04 ` Florian Westphal
2023-09-23 15:03 ` Phil Sutter
2023-09-23 16:18 ` Florian Westphal
2023-09-25 9:32 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2023-09-25 19:53 ` Florian Westphal
2023-09-26 9:34 ` Phil Sutter
2023-09-26 10:09 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2023-09-26 12:14 ` Phil Sutter
2023-09-26 13:34 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2023-09-26 13:59 ` Phil Sutter
2023-09-27 11:41 ` Florian Westphal [this message]
2023-09-27 12:54 ` Phil Sutter
2023-09-25 11:02 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2023-09-25 10:47 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2023-09-26 9:14 ` Phil Sutter
2023-09-26 10:00 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2023-09-25 10:48 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2023-09-25 11:01 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2023-09-23 1:38 ` [nf PATCH 3/5] netfilter: nf_tables: Introduce struct nft_obj_dump_ctx Phil Sutter
2023-09-23 1:38 ` [nf PATCH 4/5] netfilter: nf_tables: Add locking for NFT_MSG_GETOBJ_RESET requests Phil Sutter
2023-09-23 1:38 ` [nf PATCH 5/5] netfilter: nf_tables: Add locking for NFT_MSG_GETSETELEM_RESET requests Phil Sutter
2023-09-25 10:53 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
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