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.
next prev parent 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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