netdev - Re: Pull request: sfc-next 2013-08-25

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Date:	Tue, 27 Aug 2013 17:52:36 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-net-drivers@...arflare.com>
Subject: Re: Pull request: sfc-next 2013-08-25

On Tue, 2013-08-27 at 12:37 -0400, David Miller wrote:
> From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
> Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 17:26:08 +0100
> 
> > On Tue, 2013-08-27 at 12:18 -0400, David Miller wrote:
> >> From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
> >> Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2013 23:56:03 +0100
> >> 
> >> > The following changes since commit f073dde03b3e8d11050d82f52caaf75fd924e069:
> >> > 
> >> >   sfc: Make efx_mcdi_init() call efx_mcdi_handle_assertion() (2013-08-21 19:43:09 +0100)
> >> > 
> >> > are available in the git repository at:
> >> > 
> >> >   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bwh/sfc-next.git for-davem
> >> > 
> >> > for you to fetch changes up to f76fe120d81c96fa2a17ae41f0647c963dbb43cd:
> >> > 
> >> >   sfc: Update and improve kernel-doc for efx_mcdi_state & efx_mcdi_iface (2013-08-21 20:20:41 +0100)
> >> > 
> >> > 1. Refactoring and cleanup in preparation for new hardware support.
> >> > 2. Some bug fixes for firmware completion handling.  (They're not known
> >> > to cause real problems, otherwise I'd be submitting these for net and
> >> > stable.)
> >> > 3. Update to the firmware protocol (MCDI) definitions.
> >> 
> >> Pulled, but I want to point out an existing issue which is that using
> >> an atomic_t for mcdi->state is bogus.  You're only using atomic_set()
> >> and atomic_read() on the value, and that provides no "atomicity" per-se.
> > 
> > Thanks.  I don't know what you looked for, but there are actually two
> > atomic_cmpxchg() calls in mcdi.c.
> 
> I still think atomic_t is not appropriate, you can use plain xchg() as we
> do all over the IPV4 stack, such as in the TCP metrics cache and the
> routing code.
> 
> Really, if I don't see an atomic_*_and_test() or similar kind of
> operation being used, I really don't want to see an atomic_t type in
> use.

We definitely need some variant on cmpxchg() rather than xchg(), but
you're right that we don't need to use atomic_t for that.

Ben.

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