netdev - Re: [PATCH v4 1/8] SUNRPC: introduce helpers for reference counted rpcbind clients

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Date:	Tue, 20 Sep 2011 18:35:27 +0400
From:	Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@...allels.com>
To:	"Myklebust, Trond" <Trond.Myklebust@...app.com>
CC:	"Schumaker, Bryan" <Bryan.Schumaker@...app.com>,
	"linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org" <linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org>,
	Pavel Emelianov <xemul@...allels.com>,
	"neilb@...e.de" <neilb@...e.de>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"bfields@...ldses.org" <bfields@...ldses.org>,
	"davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/8] SUNRPC: introduce helpers for reference counted
 rpcbind clients

20.09.2011 18:14, Myklebust, Trond пишет:

>>>
>>> Doesn't it  need to be protected by rpcb_clnt_lock too?
>>>
>>
>> Nope from my pow. It's protected by rpcb_create_local_mutex. I.e. no one
>> will change rpcb_users since it's zero. If it's non zero - we willn't get to
>> rpcb_set_local().
>
> OK, so you are saying that the rpcb_users++ below could be replaced by rpcb_users=1?
>

Yes, you right.

> In that case, don't you need a smp_wmb() between the setting of rpcb_local_clnt/4 and the setting of rpcb_users? Otherwise, how do you guarantee that rpcb_users != 0 implies rpbc_local_clnt/4 != NULL?
>

We check rpcb_users under spinlock. Gain spinlock forces memory barrier, doesn't it?

-- 
Best regards,
Stanislav Kinsbursky
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