Re: [PATCH net-next 0/4] net: switchdev: Avoid sleep in atomic with DSA

[David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2017 12:56:48 -0800

> On 01/09/2017 12:48 PM, Ido Schimmel wrote:
>> Hi Florian,
>> 
>> On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 11:44:59AM -0800, Florian Fainelli wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> This patch series is to resolve a sleeping function called in atomic context
>>> debug splat that we observe with DSA.
>>>
>>> Let me know what you think, I was also wondering if we should just always
>>> make switchdev_port_vlan_fill() set SWITCHDEV_F_DEFER, but was afraid this
>>> could cause invalid contexts to be used for rocker, mlxsw, i40e etc.
>> 
>> Isn't this a bit of overkill? All the drivers you mention fill the VLAN
>> dump from their cache and don't require sleeping. Even b53 that you
>> mention in the last patch does that, but reads the PVID from the device,
>> which entails taking a mutex.
> 
> Correct.
> 
>> 
>> Can't you just cache the PVID as well? I think this will solve your
>> problem. Didn't look too much into the b53 code, so maybe I'm missing
>> something. Seems that mv88e6xxx has a similar problem.
> 
> I suppose we could indeed cache the PVID for b53, but for mv88e6xxx it
> seems like we need to perform a bunch of VTU operations, and those
> access HW registers, Andrew, Vivien, how do you want to solve that, do
> we want to introduce a general VLAN cache somewhere in switchdev/DSA/driver?

I would definitely prefer to see cached state used instead of this deferred
operation stuff.