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From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: NetDev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: pktgen and spin_lock_bh in xmit path
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:38:03 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ADD309B.1040505@candelatech.com> (raw)

I'm having strange issues when running pktgen on 10G interfaces while 
also running
pktgen on mac-vlans on that interface, when the mac-vlan pktgen threads 
are on a different
CPU.

First, lockdep gives up and says that things are not properly 
annotated.  I believe this is because
the macvlan tx path will lock it's txq and will also lock the 
lower-dev's txq.  To fix this, perhaps
we need some new lockdep aware primitives for netdev txq locking?

Second, is using _bh() locking really sufficient if we have pktgen 
writing to a physical device
and also have other pktgen threads writing to that same device though 
mac-vlans?   I'm seeing
deadlocks spinning on the _bh() lock in pktgen as well as strange 
corruptions, so I think there
must be *some* problem somewhere, I just don't know quite what it is yet.

Thanks,
Ben

-- 
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> 
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com



             reply	other threads:[~2009-10-20  3:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-20  3:38 Ben Greear [this message]
2009-10-20  3:48 ` pktgen and spin_lock_bh in xmit path Eric Dumazet
2009-10-20  4:52   ` Ben Greear
2009-10-20 17:37     ` Ben Greear
2009-10-20 17:44       ` Eric Dumazet
2009-10-20 17:54         ` Ben Greear
2009-10-20 18:35           ` Eric Dumazet
2009-10-20 18:54             ` Eric Dumazet
2009-10-20 20:16               ` Ben Greear
2009-10-20 21:10               ` Ben Greear
2009-10-20 21:22                 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-10-20 21:30                   ` Ben Greear
2009-10-20 21:57                     ` Eric Dumazet
2009-10-20 23:17                       ` Ben Greear
2009-10-21  3:05                         ` Ben Greear
2009-10-21  3:12                           ` Eric Dumazet
2009-10-21  3:59                             ` Eric Dumazet
2009-10-21  5:00                               ` Ben Greear
2009-10-21  5:14                                 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-10-21  5:40                                   ` Ben Greear
2009-10-21  5:12                 ` Krishna Kumar2
2009-10-21  5:32                   ` Ben Greear

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