Subject: Re: [PATCH net 2/4] hv_netvsc: reset vf_inject on VF removal

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2016 07:47:27 -0700

On Thu, 11 Aug 2016 14:09:53 +0200
Vitaly Kuznetsov <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Yuval Mintz <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> >> +static void netvsc_inject_enable(struct net_device_context
> >> +*net_device_ctx) {
> >> +	net_device_ctx->vf_inject = true;
> >> +}
> >> +
> >> +static void netvsc_inject_disable(struct net_device_context
> >> +*net_device_ctx) {
> >> +	net_device_ctx->vf_inject = false;
> >> +
> >> +	/* Wait for currently active users to drain out. */
> >> +	while (atomic_read(&net_device_ctx->vf_use_cnt) != 0)
> >> +		udelay(50);
> >> +}  
> >
> > That was already the behavior before, but are you certain you
> > want to unconditionally block without any possible timeout?  
> 
> Yes, this is OK. After PATCH4 of this series there is only one place
> which takes the vf_use_cnt (netvsc_recv_callback()) and it is an
> interrupt handler, there are no sleepable operations there.
> 

Since network devices are protected by RCU, it looks like the refcount
is not necessary.  I think vf_inject flag and vf_use_cnt could just be replaced
by doing RCU on vf_netdev.

The callback is invoked from tasklet (softirq) context.