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From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, yotamg@mellanox.com,
	idosch@mellanox.com, eladr@mellanox.com, nogahf@mellanox.com,
	ogerlitz@mellanox.com, jhs@mojatatu.com, geert+renesas@glider.be,
	xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com, linux@roeck-us.net,
	roopa@cumulusnetworks.com, john.fastabend@gmail.com,
	simon.horman@netronome.com, mrv@mojatatu.com
Subject: Re: [patch net-next 1/4] net: Introduce psample, a new genetlink channel for packet sampling
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 07:48:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170124064805.GA1891@nanopsycho> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170123155750.22f4b323@xeon-e3>

Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 12:57:50AM CET, stephen@networkplumber.org wrote:
>On Sun, 22 Jan 2017 12:44:44 +0100
>Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> wrote:
>
>> +static LIST_HEAD(psample_groups_list);
>> +static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(psample_groups_lock);
>> +
>
>Why not a mutex? You aren't acquiring this in IRQ context?

Well, that is not argument for mutex. Mutex is much heavier and does not
need to be used when not necessary (like if you don't need to sleep).

  reply	other threads:[~2017-01-24  6:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-22 11:44 [patch net-next 0/4] Add support for offloading packet-sampling Jiri Pirko
2017-01-22 11:44 ` [patch net-next 1/4] net: Introduce psample, a new genetlink channel for packet sampling Jiri Pirko
2017-01-22 13:19   ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2017-01-23 23:57   ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-01-24  6:48     ` Jiri Pirko [this message]
2017-01-22 11:44 ` [patch net-next 2/4] net/sched: Introduce sample tc action Jiri Pirko
2017-01-22 13:16   ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2017-01-22 13:28     ` Yotam Gigi
2017-01-22 14:29   ` Roman Mashak
2017-01-22 11:44 ` [patch net-next 3/4] mlxsw: reg: add the Monitoring Packet Sampling Configuration Register Jiri Pirko
2017-01-22 11:44 ` [patch net-next 4/4] mlxsw: spectrum: Add packet sample offloading support Jiri Pirko
2017-01-22 12:04   ` Ido Schimmel

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