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From: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@gmail.com>
To: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Cc: linux-sctp@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sctp: Add RCU protection to assoc->transport_addr_list
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2012 18:57:57 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50C0EAB5.3050303@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121206184433.GE16122@casper.infradead.org>

On 12/06/2012 01:44 PM, Thomas Graf wrote:
> On 12/06/12 at 01:35pm, Vlad Yasevich wrote:
>> We may want to mark transports as dead sooner.  Probably right about
>> the time we pull them off the list.
>
> We mark it dead in sctp_transport_free() which is called at the
> end of sctp_assoc_rm_peer(). Do you want to mark it dead at the
> beginning of sctp_assoc_rm_peer() as well? (We still need to
> mark in sctp_transport_free() anyway).

Crud..  sctp_transport_free() is called directly in places...   Hmm...
the one in sctp_association_free() may need to be list_del_rcu()...

Ok, we can leave the dead handling the way it is..

-vlad

>
>> When displaying, we may want to
>> look at transport->dead, and skip them.  It will reduce the probability
>> that we would be looking at a transport that's about to go away.
>
> Agreed.
>


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From: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@gmail.com>
To: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Cc: linux-sctp@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sctp: Add RCU protection to assoc->transport_addr_list
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2012 13:57:57 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50C0EAB5.3050303@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121206184433.GE16122@casper.infradead.org>

On 12/06/2012 01:44 PM, Thomas Graf wrote:
> On 12/06/12 at 01:35pm, Vlad Yasevich wrote:
>> We may want to mark transports as dead sooner.  Probably right about
>> the time we pull them off the list.
>
> We mark it dead in sctp_transport_free() which is called at the
> end of sctp_assoc_rm_peer(). Do you want to mark it dead at the
> beginning of sctp_assoc_rm_peer() as well? (We still need to
> mark in sctp_transport_free() anyway).

Crud..  sctp_transport_free() is called directly in places...   Hmm...
the one in sctp_association_free() may need to be list_del_rcu()...

Ok, we can leave the dead handling the way it is..

-vlad

>
>> When displaying, we may want to
>> look at transport->dead, and skip them.  It will reduce the probability
>> that we would be looking at a transport that's about to go away.
>
> Agreed.
>

  reply	other threads:[~2012-12-06 18:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-06 18:15 [PATCH] sctp: Add RCU protection to assoc->transport_addr_list Thomas Graf
2012-12-06 18:15 ` Thomas Graf
2012-12-06 18:35 ` Vlad Yasevich
2012-12-06 18:35   ` Vlad Yasevich
2012-12-06 18:44   ` Thomas Graf
2012-12-06 18:44     ` Thomas Graf
2012-12-06 18:57     ` Vlad Yasevich [this message]
2012-12-06 18:57       ` Vlad Yasevich
2012-12-06 19:08       ` Thomas Graf
2012-12-06 19:08         ` Thomas Graf
2012-12-06 19:14         ` Vlad Yasevich
2012-12-06 19:14           ` Vlad Yasevich
2012-12-06 19:28           ` Thomas Graf
2012-12-06 19:28             ` Thomas Graf

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