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Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2012 22:24:19 +0200
From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>,
Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
rusty@...tcorp.com.au, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] virtio-net: fix a race on 32bit arches
On Wed, 2012-06-06 at 23:16 +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 10:08:09PM +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > On Wed, 2012-06-06 at 22:58 +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> >
> > > Absolutely, I am talking about virtio here. I'm not kicking
> > > u64_stats_sync idea I am just saying that simple locking
> > > would work for virtio and might be better as it
> > > gives us a way to get counters atomically.
> >
> > Which lock do you own in the RX path ?
>
> We can just disable napi, everything is updated from napi callback.
This is very disruptive, and illegal from ndo_get_stats64()
(ndo_get_stats64() is not allowed to sleep, and I cant see how you are
going to disable napi without sleeping)
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