netdev - Re: [PATCH 10/16] ipv4: Cache output routes in fib

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Date:	Thu, 19 Jul 2012 15:13:12 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/16] ipv4: Cache output routes in fib_info nexthops.

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 00:09:03 +0200

> If we find orig not null, what can protect another cpu from reading
> nh->nh_rth_output, then we dst_release(orig), and other cpu  does the
> dst_use() too late ?

Indeed, we'd have to defer it somehow.

Actually, we might be able to fake this by using __dst_free() on it
or something similar.

But safest would be RCU, whose protection we are still using on the
read side.

Any better ideas?

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