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From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
	Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@gmail.com>,
	Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>,
	davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, edumazet@google.com,
	pabeni@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/3] net: provide macros for commonly copied lockless queue stop/wake code
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2023 08:56:29 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230406085629.3e0c9514@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c3b05efb-e691-4947-84f9-cf524e7d2cd9@paulmck-laptop>

On Thu, 6 Apr 2023 08:45:10 -0700 Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > Starting the queue only happens from softirq (I hope) and stopping 
> > can happen from any context. So we're risking false-starts again.
> > I think this puts to bed any hope of making this code safe against
> > false-starts with just barriers :(  
> 
> Is it possible to jam all the relevant state into a single variable?
> (I believe that that answer is "no", but just in case asking this question
> inspires someone to come up with a good idea.)

Not in any obvious way, half of the state is driver-specific the other
half is flags maintained by the core :S

  reply	other threads:[~2023-04-06 15:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-04-01  5:12 [PATCH net-next 0/3] net: provide macros for commonly copied lockless queue stop/wake code Jakub Kicinski
2023-04-01  5:12 ` [PATCH net-next 1/3] " Jakub Kicinski
2023-04-01 15:04   ` Heiner Kallweit
2023-04-01 18:03     ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-04-01 15:18   ` Heiner Kallweit
2023-04-01 18:58     ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-04-01 20:41       ` Heiner Kallweit
2023-04-03 15:18       ` Alexander Duyck
2023-04-03 15:56         ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-04-03 18:11           ` Alexander Duyck
2023-04-03 19:03             ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-04-03 20:27               ` Alexander Duyck
2023-04-05 22:20                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2023-04-06  5:15                   ` Herbert Xu
2023-04-06 14:17                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2023-04-06 14:46                       ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-04-06 15:45                         ` Paul E. McKenney
2023-04-06 15:56                           ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2023-04-06 16:25                             ` Paul E. McKenney
2023-04-07  0:58                         ` Herbert Xu
2023-04-07  1:03                           ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-04-07  1:14                             ` Herbert Xu
2023-04-07  1:21                               ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-04-04  6:39         ` Herbert Xu
2023-04-04 22:36           ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-04-01  5:12 ` [PATCH net-next 2/3] ixgbe: use new queue try_stop/try_wake macros Jakub Kicinski
2023-04-01  5:12 ` [PATCH net-next 3/3] bnxt: " Jakub Kicinski
2023-04-01 18:35   ` Michael Chan
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2023-03-22 23:30 [PATCH net-next 1/3] net: provide macros for commonly copied lockless queue stop/wake code Jakub Kicinski
2023-03-23  0:35 ` Andrew Lunn
2023-03-23  1:04   ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-03-23 21:02     ` Andrew Lunn
2023-03-23 22:46       ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-03-23  3:05 ` Yunsheng Lin
2023-03-23  3:27   ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-03-23  4:53 ` Pavan Chebbi
2023-03-23  5:08   ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-03-23 16:05 ` Alexander H Duyck
2023-03-24  3:09   ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-03-24 15:45     ` Alexander Duyck
2023-03-24 21:28       ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-03-26 21:23         ` Alexander Duyck
2023-03-29  0:56           ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-03-30 14:56             ` Paolo Abeni

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