netdev - Re: [PATCH] pkt_sched: Destroy gen estimators under rtnl

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Date:	Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:30:19 +1000
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	davem@...emloft.net (David Miller)
Cc:	jarkao2@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pkt_sched: Destroy gen estimators under rtnl_lock().

David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
>
> The qdisc pointer traverses to the softirq handler, which can be run
> in a process context (via ksoftirqd), and this pointer gets there
> via the per-cpu ->output_queue.

Here are two possible solutions:

1) The active way: smp_call_function and forcibly remove the qdiscs
in question from each output_queue.

2) The passive way: Make dev_deactive call yield() until no qdisc's
are on an output_queue.  This assumes there is some sort of dead
flag detection on the output_queue side so it doesn't keep going
forever.

Cheers,
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