netdev - Re: [PATCH 3/3] [UDP6]: Counter increment on BH mode

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Date:	Sat, 15 Dec 2007 18:03:19 +0100
From:	Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
CC:	Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
	Wang Chen <wangchen@...fujitsu.com>,
	Gerrit Renker <gerrit@....abdn.ac.uk>, davem@...emloft.net,
	andi@...stfloor.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] [UDP6]: Counter increment on BH mode

Herbert Xu a écrit :
> Ob Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 12:17:23AM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote:
>> Never mind, we already have that in local_t and as Alexey correctly
>> points out, USER is still going to be the expensive variant with the
>> preempt_disable (well until BH gets threaded).  So how about this patch?
> 
> I didn't hear any objections so here is the patch again.
> 
> [SNMP]: Fix SNMP counters with PREEMPT
> 
> The SNMP macros use raw_smp_processor_id() in process context
> which is illegal because the process may be preempted and then
> migrated to another CPU.
> 
> This patch makes it use get_cpu/put_cpu to disable preemption.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
> 
> Cheers,
  #define SNMP_INC_STATS_USER(mib, field) \
-	(per_cpu_ptr(mib[1], raw_smp_processor_id())->mibs[field]++)
+	do { \
+		per_cpu_ptr(mib[1], get_cpu())->mibs[field]++; \
+		put_cpu(); \
+	} while (0)
  #define SNMP_INC_STATS(mib, field) 	\
  	(per_cpu_ptr(mib[!in_softirq()], raw_smp_processor_id())->mibs[field]++)


How come you change SNMP_INC_STATS_USER() but not SNMP_INC_STATS() ?


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