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From: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat•com>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor•hengli.com.au>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat•com>,
	Qianfeng Zhang <frzhang@redhat•com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft•net>,
	netdev@vger•kernel.org, Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta•com>,
	Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic•com>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux•vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/8] bridge: Fix netpoll support
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 18:57:28 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C19FF98.5080105@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100617103819.GA1252@gondor.apana.org.au>

On 06/17/10 18:38, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 06:28:17PM +0800, Cong Wang wrote:
>>
>>> This allows us to do away with the npinfo juggling that caused
>>> problem number 1.
>>>
>>> Incidentally this patch fixes number 2 by bypassing unsafe code
>>> such as multicast snooping and netfilter.
>>
>> Not sure if I understand problem 2) and 3), this patch is not easy
>> to review. So, what's the point of adding ->np to struct net_bridge_port?
>> since we already have p->dev->npinfo->netpoll?
>
> A netpoll_info structure always maps to one and only one net_device
> structure.  While each net_device may have multiple netpoll
> structures attached.
>
> You must not share netpoll or netpoll_info structures between
> devices since that breaks other users (netconsole or anything
> else) from attaching to those devices.
>

Thanks for explanation.

Hmm, I get it now. So this helps to fix problem 3)?



  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-17 10:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-10 12:40 [0/8] netpoll/bridge fixes Herbert Xu
2010-06-10 12:42 ` [PATCH 1/7] netpoll: Set npinfo to NULL even with ndo_netpoll_cleanup Herbert Xu
2010-06-10 12:42 ` [PATCH 2/7] bridge: Remove redundant npinfo NULL setting Herbert Xu
2010-06-10 12:42 ` [PATCH 3/7] netpoll: Fix RCU usage Herbert Xu
2010-06-10 12:42 ` [PATCH 4/7] netpoll: Add locking for netpoll_setup/cleanup Herbert Xu
2010-06-10 12:42 ` [PATCH 5/7] netpoll: Add ndo_netpoll_setup Herbert Xu
2010-06-10 12:42 ` [PATCH 6/7] netpoll: Allow netpoll_setup/cleanup recursion Herbert Xu
2010-06-10 12:42 ` [PATCH 7/7] bridge: Fix netpoll support Herbert Xu
2010-06-10 14:49 ` [0/8] netpoll/bridge fixes Stephen Hemminger
2010-06-10 21:56   ` Herbert Xu
2010-06-10 21:59     ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-06-10 22:48       ` Herbert Xu
2010-06-11  2:11         ` Herbert Xu
2010-06-11  2:12           ` [PATCH 1/8] netpoll: Set npinfo to NULL even with ndo_netpoll_cleanup Herbert Xu
2010-06-11  2:12           ` [PATCH 2/8] bridge: Remove redundant npinfo NULL setting Herbert Xu
2010-06-11  2:12           ` [PATCH 3/8] netpoll: Fix RCU usage Herbert Xu
2010-06-11 23:10             ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-06-11  2:12           ` [PATCH 4/8] netpoll: Add locking for netpoll_setup/cleanup Herbert Xu
2010-06-11  2:12           ` [PATCH 5/8] netpoll: Add ndo_netpoll_setup Herbert Xu
2010-06-11  2:12           ` [PATCH 6/8] netpoll: Allow netpoll_setup/cleanup recursion Herbert Xu
2010-06-25  1:21             ` Andrew Morton
2010-06-25  3:01               ` Herbert Xu
2010-06-25  3:30               ` David Miller
2010-06-25  3:50                 ` Andrew Morton
2010-06-25  4:27                   ` David Miller
2010-06-25  4:42                     ` Andrew Morton
2010-06-25  4:52                       ` David Miller
2010-06-25  8:08                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-25  8:42                         ` Andrew Morton
2010-06-25  9:45                           ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-25  8:46                       ` Ingo Molnar
2010-06-25 10:08                       ` Nick Piggin
2010-06-11  2:12           ` [PATCH 7/8] netpoll: Add netpoll_tx_running Herbert Xu
2010-06-11  2:12           ` [PATCH 8/8] bridge: Fix netpoll support Herbert Xu
2010-06-11  3:08             ` fired a bug report on bugzilla.redhat.com Qianfeng Zhang
2010-06-15 10:28             ` [PATCH 8/8] bridge: Fix netpoll support Cong Wang
2010-06-17 10:38               ` Herbert Xu
2010-06-17 10:57                 ` Cong Wang [this message]
2010-06-17 10:55                   ` Herbert Xu
2010-06-18  3:06                     ` Cong Wang
2010-06-11 20:03           ` [0/8] netpoll/bridge fixes Matt Mackall
2010-06-15 10:17           ` Cong Wang
2010-06-15 18:39           ` David Miller
2010-06-16  2:58             ` Eric Dumazet
2010-06-16  3:03               ` Eric Dumazet
2010-06-16  3:33                 ` Herbert Xu
2010-06-16  4:47                   ` David Miller
2010-06-16 23:02                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-06-17 10:18                       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-06-17 21:26                         ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-06-16  6:16                   ` Eric Dumazet
2010-06-16  5:08               ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-06-16  6:21                 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-06-16 16:01                   ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-07-19 10:19           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-07-19 10:53             ` Herbert Xu
2010-07-19 11:54               ` Herbert Xu
2010-07-19 16:05                 ` David Miller
2010-07-19 16:52                   ` Eric Dumazet
2010-07-19 20:35                     ` David Miller
2010-07-20  5:26                   ` Herbert Xu
2010-07-20  6:28                     ` David Miller
2010-06-29 12:53 ` Yanko Kaneti

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