Re: [PATCH net] net: switchdev: Convert blocking notification chain to a raw one

[Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>]

On Tue, Mar 11, 2025 at 01:12:50AM -0700, Kuniyuki Iwashima wrote:
> From: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
> > As you may be aware there is quite some activity to reduce the reliance on
> > RTNL. However, as the events in question are already protected by RTNL
> > I think the approach you have taken here is entirely reasonable.
> 
> It would be appreicated if Amit you can post a follow-up patch against
> net-next.git to convert the rtnl_lock() to another lock or rtnl_net_lock().

We're obviously aware of the RTNL related work and we thought about
making these notification chains (atomic and blocking) per-netns, but
it's not something that can be submitted as a fix.

I will look into it, but there are some listeners that I'm not sure how
to convert. I can register them with "&init_net" for RFC. Hopefully the
relevant maintainers will be able to help with that.

Note that we will need to keep ASSERT_RTNL() in
call_switchdev_blocking_notifiers() until all the callers are converted
to per-netns RTNL.