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From: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp•com>
To: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us•ibm.com>
Cc: paulmck@linux•vnet.ibm.com, netdev@vger•kernel.org,
	lksctp-developers@lists•sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Lksctp-developers] [RFC v3 PATCH 2/21] SCTP:	Convert	bind_addr_list locking to RCU
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 16:14:37 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46E99A2D.8030506@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1189713386.2748.28.camel@w-sridhar2.beaverton.ibm.com>

Sridhar Samudrala wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 15:33 -0400, Vlad Yasevich wrote:
>> Hi Sridhar
>>
>> Sridhar Samudrala wrote:
>>> On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 15:33 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 05:03:42PM -0400, Vlad Yasevich wrote:
>>>>> [... and here is the updated version as promissed ...]
>>>>>
>>>>> Since the sctp_sockaddr_entry is now RCU enabled as part of
>>>>> the patch to synchronize sctp_localaddr_list, it makes sense to
>>>>> change all handling of these entries to RCU.  This includes the
>>>>> sctp_bind_addrs structure and it's list of bound addresses.
>>>>>
>>>>> This list is currently protected by an external rw_lock and that
>>>>> looks like an overkill.  There are only 2 writers to the list:
>>>>> bind()/bindx() calls, and BH processing of ASCONF-ACK chunks.
>>>>> These are already seriealized via the socket lock, so they will
>>>>> not step on each other.  These are also relatively rare, so we
>>>>> should be good with RCU.
>>>>>
>>>>> The readers are varied and they are easily converted to RCU.
>>>> Looks good from an RCU viewpoint -- I must defer to others on
>>>> the networking aspects.
>>>>
>>>> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux•vnet.ibm.com>
>>> looks good to me too. some minor typos and some comments on
>>> RCU usage comments inline.
>>>
>>> Also, I guess we can remove the sctp_[read/write]_[un]lock macros
>>> from sctp.h now that you removed the all the users of rwlocks
>>> in SCTP
>>>
>> Looks like some of the hashing calls still use sctp_write_[un]lock
>> macros, but use normal read_lock() for the read side.
>>
>> I'll clean that up after these patches are accepted.
> 
> OK. You may also consider looking into the generic inet_hashtable
> infrastructure and see if we can use it for SCTP.
> 
> 

I've had a patch set brewing for a while.  I had everything done except the
association hash.  Have been trying to figure out how to plug that one in...

If you want to take a look, I can send you what I have so far. :)

-vlad

      reply	other threads:[~2007-09-13 20:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-12 19:46 [RFC v2 PATCH 0/2] Add RCU locking to SCTP address management Vlad Yasevich
2007-09-12 19:46 ` [RFC v2 PATCH 1/2] SCTP: Add RCU synchronization around sctp_localaddr_list Vlad Yasevich
2007-09-12 22:26   ` Paul E. McKenney
2007-09-12 23:03   ` Sridhar Samudrala
2007-09-13 13:46     ` Vlad Yasevich
2007-09-12 19:46 ` [RFC v2 PATCH 2/2] SCTP: Convert bind_addr_list locking to RCU Vlad Yasevich
2007-09-12 20:59 ` [RFC v2 PATCH 0/2] Add RCU locking to SCTP address management Vlad Yasevich
2007-09-12 21:03   ` [RFC v3 PATCH 2/21] SCTP: Convert bind_addr_list locking to RCU Vlad Yasevich
2007-09-12 22:33     ` Paul E. McKenney
2007-09-13 17:59       ` Sridhar Samudrala
2007-09-13 18:15         ` Vlad Yasevich
2007-09-13 19:33         ` [Lksctp-developers] " Vlad Yasevich
2007-09-13 19:56           ` Sridhar Samudrala
2007-09-13 20:14             ` Vlad Yasevich [this message]

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