From: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@o2.pl>
To: Olaf Kirch <okir@lst.de>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Races in net_rx_action vs netpoll?
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 10:06:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070716080650.GA2297@ff.dom.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070713085508.GC2009@ff.dom.local>
On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 10:55:08AM +0200, Jarek Poplawski wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 03:54:32PM +0200, Olaf Kirch wrote:
...
> > One thing I was a little worried about was whether dev->npinfo can
> > go away all of a sudden. It's really just protected by an rcu_readlock...
...
> BTW, I don't think there could be any problem with rcu (if it's
> all about calling dev->poll from poll_napi) because then poll_napi
> should have the same problem.
To do it justice: I've missed your point, but of course you are
right the validity of dev->npinfo should be analyzed with such
a solution too.
Regards,
Jarek P.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-16 7:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-04 12:16 Races in net_rx_action vs netpoll? Olaf Kirch
2007-07-09 22:27 ` David Miller
2007-07-10 10:44 ` Olaf Kirch
2007-07-11 5:44 ` David Miller
2007-07-11 7:41 ` Olaf Kirch
2007-07-12 2:33 ` David Miller
2007-07-19 15:19 ` Olaf Kirch
2007-07-19 16:27 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-07-22 7:05 ` David Miller
2007-07-24 10:26 ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-07-12 12:59 ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-07-12 13:54 ` Olaf Kirch
2007-07-13 8:55 ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-07-16 8:06 ` Jarek Poplawski [this message]
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