From: Vlad Buslov <vladbu@mellanox•com>
To: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail•com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@vger•kernel.org>,
Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu•com>,
Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli•us>, David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 01/12] net: sched: flower: don't check for rtnl on head dereference
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2019 09:45:59 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vbf8sycqfn8.fsf@mellanox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAM_iQpXHLkwGC9T4231hQHeS8_8AyiA2+Pt-LqyjyeckKeUSzA@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon 18 Feb 2019 at 19:08, Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail•com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 11:47 PM Vlad Buslov <vladbu@mellanox•com> wrote:
>>
>> Flower classifier only changes root pointer during init and destroy. Cls
>> API implements reference counting for tcf_proto, so there is no danger of
>> concurrent access to tp when it is being destroyed, even without protection
>> provided by rtnl lock.
>
> How about atomicity? Refcnt doesn't guarantee atomicity, how do
> you make sure two concurrent modifications are atomic?
In order to guarantee atomicity I lock shared flower classifier data
structures with tp->lock in following patches.
>
>
>>
>> Implement new function fl_head_dereference() to dereference tp->root
>> without checking for rtnl lock. Use it in all flower function that obtain
>> head pointer instead of rtnl_dereference().
>>
>
> So what lock protects RCU writers after this patch?
I explained it in comment for fl_head_dereference(), but should have
copied this information to changelog as well:
Flower classifier only changes root pointer during init and destroy.
Cls API implements reference counting for tcf_proto, so there is no
danger of concurrent access to tp when it is being destroyed, even
without protection provided by rtnl lock.
In initial version of this change I used tp->lock to protect tp->root
access and verified it with lockdep, but during internal review Jiri
noted that this is not needed in current flower implementation.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-02-19 9:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-14 7:47 [PATCH net-next 00/12] Refactor flower classifier to remove dependency on rtnl lock Vlad Buslov
2019-02-14 7:47 ` [PATCH net-next 01/12] net: sched: flower: don't check for rtnl on head dereference Vlad Buslov
2019-02-18 19:08 ` Cong Wang
2019-02-19 9:45 ` Vlad Buslov [this message]
2019-02-20 22:33 ` Cong Wang
2019-02-21 17:45 ` Vlad Buslov
2019-02-22 19:32 ` Cong Wang
2019-02-25 16:11 ` Vlad Buslov
2019-02-25 22:39 ` Cong Wang
2019-02-26 14:57 ` Vlad Buslov
2019-02-28 0:49 ` Cong Wang
2019-02-28 18:35 ` Vlad Buslov
2019-03-02 0:51 ` Cong Wang
2019-02-14 7:47 ` [PATCH net-next 02/12] net: sched: flower: refactor fl_change Vlad Buslov
2019-02-14 20:34 ` Stefano Brivio
2019-02-15 10:38 ` Vlad Buslov
2019-02-15 10:47 ` Stefano Brivio
2019-02-15 16:25 ` Vlad Buslov
2019-02-18 18:20 ` Stefano Brivio
2019-02-14 7:47 ` [PATCH net-next 03/12] net: sched: flower: introduce reference counting for filters Vlad Buslov
2019-02-14 20:34 ` Stefano Brivio
2019-02-15 11:22 ` Vlad Buslov
2019-02-15 12:32 ` Stefano Brivio
2019-02-14 7:47 ` [PATCH net-next 04/12] net: sched: flower: track filter deletion with flag Vlad Buslov
2019-02-14 20:49 ` Stefano Brivio
2019-02-15 15:54 ` Vlad Buslov
2019-02-14 7:47 ` [PATCH net-next 05/12] net: sched: flower: add reference counter to flower mask Vlad Buslov
2019-02-14 7:47 ` [PATCH net-next 06/12] net: sched: flower: handle concurrent mask insertion Vlad Buslov
2019-02-15 22:46 ` Stefano Brivio
2019-02-14 7:47 ` [PATCH net-next 07/12] net: sched: flower: protect masks list with spinlock Vlad Buslov
2019-02-14 7:47 ` [PATCH net-next 08/12] net: sched: flower: handle concurrent filter insertion in fl_change Vlad Buslov
2019-02-14 7:47 ` [PATCH net-next 09/12] net: sched: flower: handle concurrent tcf proto deletion Vlad Buslov
2019-02-18 20:47 ` Cong Wang
2019-02-19 14:08 ` Vlad Buslov
2019-02-14 7:47 ` [PATCH net-next 10/12] net: sched: flower: protect flower classifier state with spinlock Vlad Buslov
2019-02-14 7:47 ` [PATCH net-next 11/12] net: sched: flower: track rtnl lock state Vlad Buslov
2019-02-15 22:46 ` Stefano Brivio
2019-02-18 9:35 ` Vlad Buslov
2019-02-14 7:47 ` [PATCH net-next 12/12] net: sched: flower: set unlocked flag for flower proto ops Vlad Buslov
2019-02-18 19:27 ` Cong Wang
2019-02-19 10:15 ` Vlad Buslov
2019-02-20 22:36 ` Cong Wang
2019-02-18 19:15 ` [PATCH net-next 00/12] Refactor flower classifier to remove dependency on rtnl lock Cong Wang
2019-02-19 10:00 ` Vlad Buslov
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