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From: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
To: Vlad Buslov <vladbu@mellanox.com>
Cc: "netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	"jhs@mojatatu.com" <jhs@mojatatu.com>,
	"xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com" <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>,
	"jiri@resnulli.us" <jiri@resnulli.us>,
	"davem@davemloft.net" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	"ast@kernel.org" <ast@kernel.org>,
	"daniel@iogearbox.net" <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 16/17] net: sched: conditionally take rtnl lock on rules update path
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2018 17:57:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181113175722.25868f93@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181113165307.45987362@redhat.com>

On Tue, 13 Nov 2018 16:53:07 +0100
Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com> wrote:

> But to make that effective, you would need to protect the read too, and
> that makes your optimisation not really overzealous I think.
> 
> I'd rather go with an additional comment, if that doesn't become
> unreadable.

Oh, and of course, this whole thing makes sense only if for some reason
you end up keeping this function. Maybe ignore my comments on this patch
at least for the moment being ;)

-- 
Stefano

  reply	other threads:[~2018-11-14  2:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-12  7:55 [PATCH net-next 00/17] Refactor classifier API to work with chain/classifiers without rtnl lock Vlad Buslov
2018-11-12  7:55 ` [PATCH net-next 01/17] net: sched: refactor mini_qdisc_pair_swap() to use workqueue Vlad Buslov
2018-11-12 17:28   ` David Miller
2018-11-13 13:13     ` Vlad Buslov
2018-11-13 16:08       ` David Miller
2018-11-12  7:55 ` [PATCH net-next 02/17] net: sched: protect block state with spinlock Vlad Buslov
2018-11-12 17:28   ` David Miller
2018-11-13 10:07     ` Stefano Brivio
2018-11-13 13:28       ` Vlad Buslov
2018-11-12  7:55 ` [PATCH net-next 03/17] net: sched: refactor tc_ctl_chain() to use block->lock Vlad Buslov
2018-11-12  7:55 ` [PATCH net-next 04/17] net: sched: protect block->chain0 with block->lock Vlad Buslov
2018-11-12  7:55 ` [PATCH net-next 05/17] net: sched: traverse chains in block with tcf_get_next_chain() Vlad Buslov
2018-11-12  7:55 ` [PATCH net-next 06/17] net: sched: protect chain template accesses with block lock Vlad Buslov
2018-11-12  7:55 ` [PATCH net-next 07/17] net: sched: lock the chain when accessing filter_chain list Vlad Buslov
2018-11-12  7:55 ` [PATCH net-next 08/17] net: sched: introduce reference counting for tcf proto Vlad Buslov
2018-11-12  7:55 ` [PATCH net-next 09/17] net: sched: traverse classifiers in chain with tcf_get_next_proto() Vlad Buslov
2018-11-12  7:55 ` [PATCH net-next 10/17] net: sched: refactor tp insert/delete for concurrent execution Vlad Buslov
2018-11-12  7:55 ` [PATCH net-next 11/17] net: sched: prevent insertion of new classifiers during chain flush Vlad Buslov
2018-11-12  7:55 ` [PATCH net-next 12/17] net: sched: track rtnl lock status when validating extensions Vlad Buslov
2018-11-12  7:55 ` [PATCH net-next 13/17] net: sched: extend proto ops with 'put' callback Vlad Buslov
2018-11-12  7:55 ` [PATCH net-next 14/17] net: sched: extend proto ops to support unlocked classifiers Vlad Buslov
2018-11-12  7:55 ` [PATCH net-next 15/17] net: sched: add flags to Qdisc class ops struct Vlad Buslov
2018-11-12  7:55 ` [PATCH net-next 16/17] net: sched: conditionally take rtnl lock on rules update path Vlad Buslov
2018-11-13  9:40   ` Stefano Brivio
2018-11-13 13:25     ` Vlad Buslov
2018-11-13 13:40       ` Stefano Brivio
2018-11-13 13:58         ` Vlad Buslov
2018-11-13 15:53           ` Stefano Brivio
2018-11-13 16:57             ` Stefano Brivio [this message]
2018-11-12  7:55 ` [PATCH net-next 17/17] net: sched: unlock rules update API Vlad Buslov
2018-11-12 17:30   ` David Miller
2018-11-13 13:46     ` Vlad Buslov
2018-11-14  6:44       ` Jiri Pirko
2018-11-14 16:45         ` Vlad Buslov
2018-11-15 10:20           ` Jiri Pirko

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