From: Nicolas Schichan <nschichan@freebox•fr>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail•com>
Cc: netdev@vger•kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft•net>,
Cong Wang <amwang@redhat•com>
Subject: Re: freeze with interface rename & SIOCGIFNAME
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 19:12:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51C9CF8B.6030502@freebox.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1372179933.3301.106.camel@edumazet-glaptop>
On 06/25/2013 07:05 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-06-25 at 09:57 -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>
>> I am not sure it's needed, because the writer holds a spinlock and is
>> not allowed to sleep or being preempted.
>>
>> If it's needed, there is a bug somewhere else...
>
> Oh well, its a write_seqcount, so no spinlock...
That's what I was going to reply.
Am I right in thinking that the process spinning on SIOCGIFNAME should be
naturally be preempted by other tasks by the scheduler once its timeslice has
expired or am I missing something ?
--
Nicolas Schichan
Freebox SAS
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2013-06-25 16:15 ` freeze with interface rename & SIOCGIFNAME Eric Dumazet
2013-06-25 16:27 ` Nicolas Schichan
2013-06-25 16:57 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-06-25 17:05 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-06-25 17:12 ` Nicolas Schichan [this message]
2013-06-25 17:19 ` Eric Dumazet
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