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From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel•org>
To: Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail•com>
Cc: "Linga, Pavan Kumar" <pavan.kumar.linga@intel•com>,
	Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel•com>,
	davem@davemloft•net, pabeni@redhat•com, edumazet@google•com,
	netdev@vger•kernel.org, emil.s.tantilov@intel•com,
	jesse.brandeburg@intel•com, sridhar.samudrala@intel•com,
	shiraz.saleem@intel•com, sindhu.devale@intel•com,
	willemb@google•com, decot@google•com, andrew@lunn•ch,
	leon@kernel•org, mst@redhat•com, simon.horman@corigine•com,
	shannon.nelson@amd•com, stephen@networkplumber•org,
	Alan Brady <alan.brady@intel•com>,
	Joshua Hay <joshua.a.hay@intel•com>,
	Madhu Chittim <madhu.chittim@intel•com>,
	Phani Burra <phani.r.burra@intel•com>,
	Shailendra Bhatnagar <shailendra.bhatnagar@intel•com>,
	Krishneil Singh <krishneil.k.singh@intel•com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 05/15] idpf: add create vport and netdev configuration
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2023 12:10:06 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230607121006.59d57ca0@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAF=yD-KAQceDE9UmJAvepz8tWGgqyr+drv_WYp-q=7vEEUTfiA@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 7 Jun 2023 20:20:57 +0200 Willem de Bruijn wrote:
> > > Please use locks. Every single Intel driver comes with gazillion flags
> > > and endless bugs when the flags go out of sync.  
> >
> > Thanks for the feedback. Will use mutex lock instead of 'VC_MSG_PENDING'
> > flag.  
> 
> Was that the intent of the comment?
> 
> Or is it to replace these individual atomic test_and_set bit
> operations with a single spinlock-protected critical section around
> all the flag operations?

No, no. Intel drivers have a history of adding flags to work around
locking problems. Whatever this bit is protecting should be protected
by a normal synchronization primitive instead.

I don't understand why.

Replacing an atomic bitop with a spin lock is a non-change.

> That's how I read the suggestion.

  reply	other threads:[~2023-06-07 19:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-05-30 23:44 [PATCH net-next 00/15][pull request] Introduce Intel IDPF driver Tony Nguyen
2023-05-30 23:44 ` [PATCH net-next 01/15] virtchnl: add virtchnl version 2 ops Tony Nguyen
2023-05-30 23:44 ` [PATCH net-next 02/15] idpf: add module register and probe functionality Tony Nguyen
2023-05-31  6:05   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2023-05-31 18:34     ` Jesse Brandeburg
2023-05-31 20:25       ` Tony Nguyen
2023-06-11 17:54       ` Leon Romanovsky
2023-05-30 23:44 ` [PATCH net-next 03/15] idpf: add controlq init and reset checks Tony Nguyen
2023-05-30 23:44 ` [PATCH net-next 04/15] idpf: add core init and interrupt request Tony Nguyen
2023-05-30 23:44 ` [PATCH net-next 05/15] idpf: add create vport and netdev configuration Tony Nguyen
2023-06-01  6:22   ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-06-01 23:47     ` Linga, Pavan Kumar
2023-06-07 18:20       ` Willem de Bruijn
2023-06-07 19:10         ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2023-06-07 19:39           ` Willem de Bruijn
2023-05-30 23:44 ` [PATCH net-next 06/15] idpf: continue expanding init task Tony Nguyen
2023-05-30 23:44 ` [PATCH net-next 07/15] idpf: configure resources for TX queues Tony Nguyen
2023-05-30 23:44 ` [PATCH net-next 08/15] idpf: configure resources for RX queues Tony Nguyen
2023-05-30 23:44 ` [PATCH net-next 09/15] idpf: initialize interrupts and enable vport Tony Nguyen
2023-05-30 23:44 ` [PATCH net-next 10/15] idpf: add splitq start_xmit Tony Nguyen
2023-05-30 23:44 ` [PATCH net-next 11/15] idpf: add TX splitq napi poll support Tony Nguyen
2023-05-30 23:44 ` [PATCH net-next 12/15] idpf: add RX " Tony Nguyen
2023-05-30 23:44 ` [PATCH net-next 13/15] idpf: add singleq start_xmit and napi poll Tony Nguyen
2023-05-30 23:45 ` [PATCH net-next 14/15] idpf: add ethtool callbacks Tony Nguyen
2023-05-30 23:45 ` [PATCH net-next 15/15] idpf: configure SRIOV and add other ndo_ops Tony Nguyen
2023-06-01  6:23   ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-06-01 23:40     ` Linga, Pavan Kumar

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