netdev - Re: [PATCH] pkt_sched: Destroy gen estimators under rtnl

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Date:	Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:49:36 +0000
From:	Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...il.com>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	denys@...p.net.lb
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pkt_sched: Destroy gen estimators under rtnl_lock().

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 10:35:38PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 05:27:54AM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> > 
> > This looks even worse, actually.
> > 
> > If we just unlinked this thing, we don't want anyone finding
> > it, even before we grab this lock, to adjust queue counts.
> 
> You're right, this doesn't work at all.  In fact it's been broken
> even before we removed the root lock.  The problem is that we used
> to have one big linked list for each device.  That was protected
> by the device qdisc lock.  Now we have one list for each txq and
> qdisc_lookup walks every single txq.  This means that no single
> qdisc root lock can protect this anymore.
> 

I don't think there could be such a problem, since nobody should look
for such a destroyed qdisc: they look for their ancestors only.
Anyway, I can't do this patch before evening, so I wait for
suggestions or you could simply do it as you wish, no problem.

Cheers,
Jarek P.
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