netdev - Re: IOV iterator bug in net tree

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Date:	Wed, 1 Jun 2016 17:54:08 -0700
From:	Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: IOV iterator bug in net tree

On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 5:42 PM, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
> From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com>
> Date: Fri, 27 May 2016 21:32:39 -0700
>
>> On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 11:21 AM, Alexander Duyck
>> <alexander.duyck@...il.com> wrote:
>>> I started out this morning by trying to run DevStack on the latest
>>> "net' kernel and it looks like I am hanging on some sort of locking
>>> problem with RabbitMQ.  Specifically I am seeing one CPU jump to 100%
>>> with perf showing that I am spinning on a lock.
>>>
>>> I'm working to bisect it now, but just thought I would put it out
>>> there if anybody had already root caused this issue.  Below is a few
>>> traces to the spin lock call on the spinning CPU:
>>
>> I misread the perf trace.  I wasn't spinning on a lock I was spinning
>> on the IOV iterator.  It just happened to push the lock to the top of
>> the perf trace.  I bisected it down to the recent change in
>> iterate_and_advance which was already fixed in Linus's tree in commit
>> 19f18459330f "do 'fold checks into iterate_and_advance()" right'.
>
> Since I resynced both of my trees with Linus's, this should be resolved
> now, right?

Yes, I pulled the latest net tree a few hours ago and it is working
without any issues.

Thanks.

- Alex