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From: "Timo Teräs" <timo.teras@iki.fi>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 1/2] flow: virtualize get and entry deletion methods
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:03:26 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BB0970E.7060405@iki.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100329115701.GA24367@gondor.apana.org.au>

Herbert Xu wrote:
> I'm not talking about the flow cache.  The current flow cache
> code doesn't even take the lock.
>
> I'm talking about the other places that you have to convert in
> order to make this into an atomic_t.

Did you check the other places?

All other places do:
  fox x policies:
    lock(x)
    pol_dead |= x->walk.dead;
    unlock(x)
  if pol_dead
    abort

or similar.

And some cases don't even bother to lock the policy currently
when reading walk.dead.

All of the code treats the walk.dead as a hint. It does not need
strong synchronization with a lock.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-29 12:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-25  9:24 [PATCH RFC 0/2] caching bundles instead of policies Timo Teras
2010-03-25  9:24 ` [PATCH RFC 1/2] flow: virtualize get and entry deletion methods Timo Teras
2010-03-25 19:26   ` David Miller
2010-03-26  6:17     ` Timo Teräs
2010-03-29  8:40     ` Herbert Xu
2010-03-29  9:00       ` Timo Teräs
2010-03-29  9:09         ` Herbert Xu
2010-03-29 10:07           ` Timo Teräs
2010-03-29 10:26             ` Herbert Xu
2010-03-29 10:36               ` Timo Teräs
2010-03-29 11:10                 ` Herbert Xu
2010-03-29 11:23                   ` Timo Teräs
2010-03-29 11:32                     ` Herbert Xu
2010-03-29 11:39                       ` Timo Teräs
2010-03-29 11:57                         ` Herbert Xu
2010-03-29 12:03                           ` Timo Teräs [this message]
2010-03-29 12:11                             ` Herbert Xu
2010-03-29 12:20                               ` Timo Teräs
2010-03-29 12:25                                 ` Herbert Xu
2010-03-29 12:33                                   ` Timo Teräs
2010-03-29 12:45                                     ` Herbert Xu
2010-03-25  9:24 ` [PATCH RFC 2/2] xfrm: cache bundles instead of policies for outgoing flows Timo Teras

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