netdev - Re: [PATCH] fix ip_gre lockless xmits

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Date:	Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:36:16 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	willemb@...gle.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix ip_gre lockless xmits

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:58:11 +0100

> Le jeudi 26 janvier 2012 à 15:34 -0500, Willem de Bruijn a écrit :
>> Tunnel devices set NETIF_F_LLTX to bypass HARD_TX_LOCK.  Sit and
>> ipip set this unconditionally in ops->setup, but gre enables it
>> conditionally after parameter passing in ops->newlink. This is
>> not called during tunnel setup as below, however, so GRE tunnels are
>> still taking the lock.
>> 
>> modprobe ip_gre
>> ip tunnel add test0 mode gre remote 10.5.1.1 dev lo
>> ip link set test0 up
>> ip addr add 10.6.0.1 dev test0
>>  # cat /sys/class/net/test0/features
>>  # $DIR/test_tunnel_xmit 10 10.5.2.1
>> ip route add 10.5.2.0/24 dev test0
>> ip tunnel del test0
>> 
> 
>> Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>
> 
> Sure !
> 
> When I did the original patch, I used following setup sequence.
> 
> ip link add gre34 type gre remote 1.2.3.4
> 
> I was not aware of the "ip tunnel add ..."
> 
> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>

Applied.
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