netdev - Re: [Patch net 00/15] net_sched: remove RCU callbacks from TC

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Date:   Wed, 25 Oct 2017 13:46:57 -0700
From:   Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:     Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:     Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>,
        John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>,
        Chris Mi <chrism@...lanox.com>
Subject: Re: [Patch net 00/15] net_sched: remove RCU callbacks from TC

On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 4:31 PM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:
>
> I did not pretend to give a bug fix, I simply said your patch series was
> probably not the right way.

Generally I agree with you on avoid synchronize_rcu(), but this case
is very special, you need to consider case by case, not just talking
generally.


>
> Sure, we could add back BKL and solve a lot of lockdep issues.
>
>

For the record, this case is about race conditions which lead to
real bugs, not merely lockdep warnings.