From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] virtio_net: fix refill related races Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 21:30:55 +0200 Message-ID: <20111220193055.GA26392@redhat.com> References: <20111207152120.GA23417@redhat.com> <8739cvisqe.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> <20111211144428.GB14381@redhat.com> <878vmioh10.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> <20111212115405.GB7946@redhat.com> <87iplltd0g.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> <20111220190908.GC25689@redhat.com> <20111220190946.GD10752@google.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Amit Shah , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org To: Tejun Heo Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20111220190946.GD10752@google.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: virtualization-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org Errors-To: virtualization-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 11:09:46AM -0800, Tejun Heo wrote: > Hello, Michael. > > On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 09:09:08PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > Another question, wanted to make sure: > > virtnet_poll does schedule_delayed_work(&vi->refill, 0); > > separately refill work itself also does > > schedule_delayed_work(&vi->refill, HZ/2); > > If two such events happen twice, on different CPUs, we are still guaranteed > > the work will only run once, right? > > No, it's not. Normal workqueues only guarantee non-reentrance on > local CPU. If you want to guarantee that only one instance of a given > item is executing across all CPUs, you need to use the nrt workqueue. > > Thanks. Hmm, in that case it looks like a nasty race could get triggered, with try_fill_recv run on multiple CPUs in parallel, corrupting the linked list within the vq. Using the mutex as my patch did will fix that naturally, as well. Rusty, am I missing something? > -- > tejun