linux-kernel - Re: Kernel WARNING: at net/core/dev.c:1330 __netif

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Date:	Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:27:05 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	jarkao2@...il.com, Larry.Finger@...inger.net, kaber@...sh.net,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...hat.com,
	nickpiggin@...oo.com.au, paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: Kernel WARNING: at net/core/dev.c:1330
	__netif_schedule+0x2c/0x98()

On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 02:20 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
> Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:10:48 +0200
> 
> > Ok, then how about something like this, the idea is to wrap the per tx
> > lock with a read lock of the device and let the netif_tx_lock() be the
> > write side, therefore excluding all device locks, but not incure the
> > cacheline bouncing on the read side by using per-cpu counters like rcu
> > does.
> > 
> > This of course requires that netif_tx_lock() is rare, otherwise stuff
> > will go bounce anyway...
> > 
> > Probably missed a few details,.. but I think the below ought to show the
> > idea...
> 
> Thanks for the effort, but I don't think we can seriously consider
> this.
> 
> This lock is taken for every packet transmitted by the system, adding
> another memory reference (the RCU deref) and a counter bump is just
> not something we can just add to placate lockdep.  We going through
> all of this effort to seperate the TX locking into individual
> queues, it would be silly to go back and make it more expensive.

Well, not only lockdep, taking a very large number of locks is expensive
as well.

> I have other ideas which I've expanded upon in other emails.  They
> involve creating a netif_tx_freeze() interface and getting the drivers
> to start using it.

OK, as long as we get there :-)

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