From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pkt_sched: sch_api: Remove qdisc_list_lock
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:46:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <492BE591.8060202@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <492BE515.1080703@trash.net>
Patrick McHardy wrote:
> Jarek Poplawski wrote:
>> After implementing qdisc->ops->peek() there is no more calling
>> qdisc_tree_decrease_qlen() without rtnl_lock(), so qdisc_list_lock
>> added by commit: f6e0b239a2657ea8cb67f0d83d0bfdbfd19a481b "pkt_sched:
>> Fix qdisc list locking" can be removed.
>
> I might be misunderstanding something, but qdisc_tree_decrease_qlen()
> doesn't need rtnl_lock() but the sch_tree_lock() since it changes
> q.qlen.
OK I see now, rtnl_lock() was taken to protect the parent qdisc lookup.
In that case it seems fine, all callers are holding both sch_tree_lock()
and rtnl_lock().
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-25 11:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-25 11:29 [PATCH] pkt_sched: sch_api: Remove qdisc_list_lock Jarek Poplawski
2008-11-25 11:44 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-11-25 11:46 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2008-11-25 21:56 ` David Miller
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