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From: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail•com>
To: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail•com>, netdev@vger•kernel.org
Cc: jhs@mojatatu•com
Subject: Re: [RFC Patch net-next 0/6] net_sched: really switch to RCU for tc actions
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2016 23:05:36 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <57D0FFB0.40603@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <57D03EF5.90602@gmail.com>

On 16-09-07 09:23 AM, John Fastabend wrote:
> On 16-09-01 10:57 PM, Cong Wang wrote:
>> Currently there are only two tc actions lockless:
>> gact and mirred. But they are questionable because
>> we don't have anything to prevent a parallel update
>> on an existing tc action in hash table while reading
>> it on fast path, this could be a problem when a tc
>> action becomes complex.
> 
> hmm I'm trying to see where the questionable part is in the current
> code? What is it exactly.

[...]

> What did I miss?
> 

OK tracked this down see the other patch 5/6.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-09-08  7:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-02  5:57 [RFC Patch net-next 0/6] net_sched: really switch to RCU for tc actions Cong Wang
2016-09-02  5:57 ` [RFC Patch net-next 1/6] net_sched: use RCU for action hash table Cong Wang
2016-09-06 12:47   ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2016-09-06 22:37     ` Cong Wang
2016-09-02  5:57 ` [RFC Patch net-next 2/6] net_sched: introduce tcf_hash_replace() Cong Wang
2016-09-06 12:52   ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2016-09-06 22:34     ` Cong Wang
2016-09-02  5:57 ` [RFC Patch net-next 3/6] net_sched: return NULL in tcf_hash_check() Cong Wang
2016-09-02  5:57 ` [RFC Patch net-next 4/6] net_sched: introduce tcf_hash_copy() Cong Wang
2016-09-02  5:57 ` [RFC Patch net-next 5/6] net_sched: use rcu in fast path Cong Wang
2016-09-06 14:52   ` Eric Dumazet
2016-09-08  6:04     ` John Fastabend
2016-09-08 13:28       ` Eric Dumazet
2016-09-08 15:35         ` [PATCH net] net_sched: act_mirred: full rcu conversion Eric Dumazet
2016-09-08 15:47           ` John Fastabend
2016-09-08 15:51             ` Eric Dumazet
2016-09-09  5:26               ` Cong Wang
2016-09-09 12:23                 ` Eric Dumazet
2016-09-09 15:52                 ` John Fastabend
2016-09-12  6:12                   ` Cong Wang
2016-09-12 15:34                     ` John Fastabend
2016-09-09  5:24           ` Cong Wang
2016-09-09  5:48             ` Alexei Starovoitov
2016-09-09  5:59               ` Cong Wang
2016-09-09 12:25                 ` Eric Dumazet
2016-09-09 12:23             ` Eric Dumazet
2016-09-12  5:46               ` Cong Wang
2016-09-08 15:49         ` [RFC Patch net-next 5/6] net_sched: use rcu in fast path John Fastabend
2016-09-09  5:54           ` Cong Wang
2016-09-09 15:25             ` John Fastabend
2016-09-09  5:49     ` Cong Wang
2016-09-02  5:57 ` [RFC Patch net-next 6/6] net_sched: switch to RCU API for act_mirred Cong Wang
2016-09-02  7:09 ` [RFC Patch net-next 0/6] net_sched: really switch to RCU for tc actions Jiri Pirko
2016-09-02 19:44   ` Cong Wang
2016-09-07 16:23 ` John Fastabend
2016-09-08  6:05   ` John Fastabend [this message]
2016-09-09  5:22   ` Cong Wang

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