netdev - Re: [RFC/PATCH] sungem: Spring cleaning and GRO support

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Message-ID: <1306880249.2866.53.camel@bwh-desktop>
Date:	Tue, 31 May 2011 23:17:29 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	"R. Herbst" <ruediger.herbst@...glemail.com>,
	Brian Hamilton <bhamilton04@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] sungem: Spring cleaning and GRO support

On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 07:58 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
[...]
> > Is the pm_mutex really needed?  All control operations should already be
> > serialised by the RTNL lock, and you've started taking that in the
> > suspend and resume functions.
> 
> Well, it's been there forever and I need to get my head around it, but
> yes, the rtnl lock might be able to get rid of it, good point. I just
> actually added that :-)
> 
> So all ndo_set_* are going to be covered by rtnl including the ethtool ?

ethtool ops are almost all covered; the kernel-doc comment has the
details.

As for net_device_ops, locking varies (and really ought to be documented
in <linux/netdevice.h>).  At least ndo_set_mac_address, ndo_change_mtu
and ndo_do_ioctl (plus of course ndo_open and ndo_stop) are called
holding the RTNL lock.

> I don't really want to take the rtnl lock in the reset task (at least
> not for the whole duration of it), so I may have to be a bit creative on
> synchronization there.
[...]

Unless reset takes more than a second I wouldn't worry about it.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings, Senior Software Engineer, Solarflare
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