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From: Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@parallels•com>
To: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat•com>
Cc: "Trond.Myklebust@netapp•com" <Trond.Myklebust@netapp•com>,
	"linux-nfs@vger•kernel.org" <linux-nfs@vger•kernel.org>,
	Pavel Emelianov <xemul@parallels•com>,
	"neilb@suse•de" <neilb@suse•de>,
	"netdev@vger•kernel.org" <netdev@vger•kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org>,
	"bfields@fieldses•org" <bfields@fieldses•org>,
	"davem@davemloft•net" <davem@davemloft•net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/8] SUNRPC: introduce helpers for reference counted rpcbind clients
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 20:20:01 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E78BD31.8090509@parallels.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110920111112.3f07cd6e@tlielax.poochiereds.net>

20.09.2011 19:11, Jeff Layton пишет:
>
> In general, it's difficult to get locking right, especially when you
> start mixing multiple locks on related resources. Personally, I'd go
> with a simpler scheme here. There's not much value in protecting this
> counter with a spinlock when the other parts need to be protected by a
> mutex. If you do decide to do it with multiple locks, then please do
> document in comments how the locking is expected to work.
>
> An alternate scheme might be to consider doing this with krefs, but I
> haven't really considered whether that idiom makes sense here.
>

Jeff, please, have a look at my answer to Bryan Schumaker.
Does it allay your apprehensions?

-- 
Best regards,
Stanislav Kinsbursky

  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-20 16:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-20 10:13 [PATCH v4 0/8] SUNRPC: make rpcbind clients allocated and destroyed dynamically Stanislav Kinsbursky
2011-09-20 10:13 ` [PATCH v4 1/8] SUNRPC: introduce helpers for reference counted rpcbind clients Stanislav Kinsbursky
2011-09-20 13:05   ` Bryan Schumaker
2011-09-20 13:15     ` Myklebust, Trond
2011-09-20 13:34       ` Stanislav Kinsbursky
     [not found]         ` <4E789679.1060601-bzQdu9zFT3WakBO8gow8eQ@public.gmane.org>
2011-09-20 14:14           ` Myklebust, Trond
2011-09-20 14:35             ` Stanislav Kinsbursky
2011-09-20 14:38               ` Myklebust, Trond
2011-09-20 15:03                 ` Stanislav Kinsbursky
2011-09-20 16:20                 ` Stanislav Kinsbursky
2011-09-20 17:13                   ` Myklebust, Trond
2011-09-20 17:26                     ` Stanislav Kinsbursky
2011-09-20 13:49   ` [PATCH v5 " Stanislav Kinsbursky
2011-09-20 14:24     ` Jeff Layton
2011-09-20 14:41       ` Myklebust, Trond
2011-09-20 15:58         ` Stanislav Kinsbursky
     [not found]       ` <20110920102431.58ca1d96-9yPaYZwiELC+kQycOl6kW4xkIHaj4LzF@public.gmane.org>
2011-09-20 14:43         ` Stanislav Kinsbursky
2011-09-20 14:58           ` Bryan Schumaker
2011-09-20 15:38             ` Stanislav Kinsbursky
2011-09-20 16:06               ` Bryan Schumaker
2011-09-20 15:11           ` Jeff Layton
2011-09-20 16:20             ` Stanislav Kinsbursky [this message]
2011-09-21  9:07     ` [PATCH v6 " Stanislav Kinsbursky
2011-09-23 14:41       ` Stanislav Kinsbursky
2011-09-23 17:26         ` Myklebust, Trond
2011-09-20 10:13 ` [PATCH v4 2/8] SUNRPC: use rpcbind reference counting helpers Stanislav Kinsbursky
2011-09-20 10:13 ` [PATCH v4 3/8] SUNRPC: introduce svc helpers for prepairing rpcbind infrastructure Stanislav Kinsbursky
2011-09-20 10:14 ` [PATCH v4 4/8] SUNRPC: setup rpcbind clients if service requires it Stanislav Kinsbursky
     [not found]   ` <20110920101404.9861.83097.stgit-bi+AKbBUZKagILUCTcTcHdKyNwTtLsGr@public.gmane.org>
2011-09-20 11:22     ` Jeff Layton
     [not found] ` <20110920101031.9861.18444.stgit-bi+AKbBUZKagILUCTcTcHdKyNwTtLsGr@public.gmane.org>
2011-09-20 10:14   ` [PATCH v4 5/8] SUNRPC: cleanup service destruction Stanislav Kinsbursky
2011-09-20 11:24   ` [PATCH v4 0/8] SUNRPC: make rpcbind clients allocated and destroyed dynamically Jeff Layton
2011-09-20 10:14 ` [PATCH v4 6/8] NFSd: call svc rpcbind cleanup explicitly Stanislav Kinsbursky
2011-09-20 10:14 ` [PATCH v4 7/8] SUNRPC: remove rpcbind clients creation during service registering Stanislav Kinsbursky
2011-09-20 10:14 ` [PATCH v4 8/8] SUNRPC: remove rpcbind clients destruction on module cleanup Stanislav Kinsbursky

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