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From: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
To: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Jiri Bohac <jbohac@suse.cz>,
	bonding-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, markine@google.com,
	chavey@google.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] bonding: fix workqueue re-arming races
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 22:06:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100901200607.GA3204@del.dom.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <10270.1283370390@death>

On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 12:46:30PM -0700, Jay Vosburgh wrote:
> Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 09:11:06PM +0200, Jiri Bohac wrote:
> >> But these don't do rtnl_lock() inside the work item, do they?
> >
> >Exactly. Just like work items cancelled from bond_work_cancel_all()
> >after your patch.
> 
> 	I see what Jarek is getting at here: the mii_commit, etc, work
> items new to the patch aren't cancelled by bond_close, so bond_close (in
> cancel_delayed_work_sync) shouldn't care if they're executing or not.
> 
> 	This still would leave the new work items (the "commit" ones
> added in the patch) always free to run at some arbitrary time after
> close, which makes me uneasy.  I don't think the extra "wq_rtnl" makes
> any difference, though.

Sure, but IIRC it wasn't encouraged. After all, many net drivers do it
similarly and don't even need their separate workqueue.

Jarek P.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-01 20:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-31 17:07 [RFC] bonding: fix workqueue re-arming races Jiri Bohac
2010-08-31 20:54 ` Jay Vosburgh
2010-09-01 12:23   ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-09-01 13:30     ` Jiri Bohac
2010-09-01 15:18       ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-09-01 15:37         ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-09-01 19:00           ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-09-01 19:11             ` Jiri Bohac
2010-09-01 19:20               ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-09-01 19:38                 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-09-01 19:46                 ` Jay Vosburgh
2010-09-01 20:06                   ` Jarek Poplawski [this message]
2010-09-01 13:16   ` Jiri Bohac
2010-09-01 17:14     ` Jay Vosburgh
2010-09-01 18:31       ` Jiri Bohac
2010-09-01 20:00         ` Jay Vosburgh
2010-09-01 20:56           ` Jiri Bohac
2010-09-02  0:54             ` Jay Vosburgh
2010-09-02 17:08               ` Jiri Bohac
2010-09-09  0:06                 ` Jay Vosburgh
2010-09-16 22:44                   ` Jay Vosburgh
2010-09-24 11:23                     ` Narendra K
2010-10-01 18:22                       ` Jiri Bohac
2010-10-05 15:03                         ` Narendra_K
2010-10-06  7:36                           ` Narendra_K

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