netdev - Re: [net-next PATCH 3/3] net: frag queue per hash bucket locking

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Date:	Fri, 29 Mar 2013 15:22:59 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	brouer@...hat.com
Cc:	hannes@...essinduktion.org, eric.dumazet@...il.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, fw@...len.de, dborkman@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH 3/3] net: frag queue per hash bucket locking

From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 20:01:33 +0100

> On Fri, 2013-03-29 at 01:33 +0100, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 04:39:42PM -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>> > On Fri, 2013-03-29 at 00:30 +0100, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:
>> > > On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 01:22:44PM -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>> > > > On Thu, 2013-03-28 at 19:57 +0100, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:
>> > > > 
>> > > > > I assume that it has to do with the usage of this code in
>> > > > > ipv6/netfilter/nf_conntrack_reasm.c, which could be invoked from process
>> > > > > context, if I read it correctly.
>> > > > 
>> > > > Then there would be a possible deadlock in current code.
>> > > 
>> > > Netfilter currently does a local_bh_disable() before entering inet_fragment
>> > > (and later enables it, again).
>> > > 
>> > 
>> > Good, so no need for the _bh() as I suspected.
>> 
>> Ack.
>> 
>> I replaced the _bh spin_locks with plain spinlocks and tested the code
>> with sending fragments and receiving fragments (netfilter and reassmbly
>> logic) with lockdep and didn't get any splats. Looks good so far.
> 
> Well, it's great to see, that you are working on solving my patch
> proposal.  While I'm on Easter vacation ;-)  Much appreciated.
> I'm officially back from vacation Tuesday, and I'll repost then (after
> testing it on my 10G testlab).

Jesper, when you do this, please just put the whole of the excellent
description text you had in the "0/3" posting from this series into
the commit message for the respun patch #3.

Thanks.
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