From: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
To: Mitch Williams <mitch.a.williams@intel.com>
Cc: "Kok, Auke-jan H" <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>,
Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>,
"Garzik, Jeff" <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, "Brandeburg,
Jesse" <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>,
"Kok, Auke" <auke@foo-projects.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] e1000: fix netpoll with NAPI
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 13:29:00 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <x49ac8nwo83.fsf@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1149787174.2928.3.camel@strongmad> (Mitch Williams's message of "Thu, 08 Jun 2006 10:19:34 -0700")
==> Regarding Re: [PATCH 1/2] e1000: fix netpoll with NAPI; Mitch Williams <mitch.a.williams@intel.com> adds:
mitch.a.williams> On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 11:44 -0700, Jeff Moyer wrote:
>> That patch locks around the tx clean routine. As such, it doesn't
>> prevent the problem.
mitch.a.williams> The call to netif_rx_schedule_prep provides locking
mitch.a.williams> because it sets the __LINK_STATE_RX_SCHED bit atomically.
mitch.a.williams> The spinlock around e1000_clean_tx_irq is to protect it
mitch.a.williams> from other calls to the transmit routine, not NAPI.
Yes, but what prevents recursion in the poll routine? Consider that the
poll routine could end up triggerring a printk (think iptables, here). In
that case, you end up calling into netpoll, and if the tx ring is full, we
call the poll_controller routine. We've now recursed.
The poll lock was originally introduced to prevent recursion, not
concurrent access.
-Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-08 17:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-05 23:09 [PATCH 0/2] e1000: fixes for netpoll+NAPI, ARM Kok, Auke
2006-06-05 23:11 ` [PATCH 1/2] e1000: fix netpoll with NAPI Kok, Auke
2006-06-06 13:52 ` Neil Horman
2006-06-06 16:39 ` Mitch Williams
2006-06-06 17:05 ` Neil Horman
2006-06-06 17:18 ` Auke Kok
2006-06-06 17:30 ` Jeff Moyer
2006-06-06 17:34 ` Auke Kok
2006-06-06 17:42 ` Jeff Moyer
2006-06-06 23:17 ` Matt Mackall
2006-06-07 15:05 ` Neil Horman
2006-06-07 16:48 ` Matt Mackall
2006-06-07 18:25 ` Auke Kok
2006-06-07 18:44 ` Jeff Moyer
2006-06-07 19:18 ` Neil Horman
2006-06-08 17:19 ` Mitch Williams
2006-06-08 17:29 ` Jeff Moyer [this message]
2006-06-12 0:13 ` Neil Horman
2006-06-12 16:42 ` Mitch Williams
2006-06-12 18:06 ` Neil Horman
2006-06-14 20:41 ` Neil Horman
2006-06-14 23:44 ` Mitch Williams
2006-06-15 12:44 ` John W. Linville
2006-06-15 20:45 ` Mitch Williams
2006-06-20 8:28 ` Andrew Grover
2006-06-07 18:54 ` John W. Linville
2006-06-08 17:23 ` Mitch Williams
2006-06-08 18:39 ` John W. Linville
2006-06-06 17:29 ` Jeff Moyer
2006-06-05 23:11 ` [PATCH 2/2] e1000: remove risky prefetch on next_skb->data Kok, Auke
2006-06-05 23:21 ` Rick Jones
2006-06-06 0:12 ` Brandeburg, Jesse
2006-06-06 0:16 ` Rick Jones
2006-06-06 0:22 ` Andi Kleen
2006-06-06 0:26 ` Brandeburg, Jesse
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