netdev - Re: [PATCH] virtio-net: fix a race on 32bit arches

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Message-ID: <1339015083.26966.74.camel@edumazet-glaptop>
Date:	Wed, 06 Jun 2012 22:38:03 +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 22:24 +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:

> (ndo_get_stats64() is not allowed to sleep, and I cant see how you are
> going to disable napi without sleeping)
> 
> 

In case you wonder, take a look at bond_get_stats() in
drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c



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