netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/3] net: introduce a list of device addresses dev_addr

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Message-ID: <20090415144204.GI21342@psychotron.englab.brq.redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:42:05 +0200
From:	Jiri Pirko <jpirko@...hat.com>
To:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, dada1@...mosbay.com,
	lizf@...fujitsu.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, jgarzik@...ox.com,
	shemminger@...ux-foundation.org, bridge@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	fubar@...ibm.com, bonding-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	mschmidt@...hat.com, ivecera@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] net: introduce a list of device addresses
	dev_addr_list

Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 12:13:57PM CEST, kaber@...sh.net wrote:
> David Miller wrote:
>> From: Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>
>> Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:27:50 +0200
>>
>>> Since you obviously need a write lock here to be sure following
>>> can be done by one cpu only.
>>>
>>> You have same problem all over this patch.
>>
>> RTNL semaphore is held across all modification operations.
>
> If this will also be used for multicast lists, changes can happen
> (IPv6) without the RTNL.

Ok, but for dev_addr_X() functions the RTNL mutex is sufficient so I see no
point of adding another lock here. When the multicast handling functions will be
implemented to use netdev_hw_addr and it's layer, then we need to use update
lock in dev_multicast_X.
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