netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/2] net: ethernet: sxgbe: remove private tx queue lock

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Date:   Sun, 18 Dec 2016 21:16:35 +0100
From:   Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:     Lino Sanfilippo <LinoSanfilippo@....de>
Cc:     Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>, bh74.an@...sung.com,
        ks.giri@...sung.com, vipul.pandya@...sung.com,
        peppe.cavallaro@...com, alexandre.torgue@...com,
        davem@...emloft.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] net: ethernet: sxgbe: remove private tx queue lock

Hi!

> > For the same reason it's broken if it races with the transmit path: it
> > can release driver resources while the transmit path uses these.
> > 
> > Btw the points below may not matter/hurt much for a proof a concept
> > but they would need to be addressed as well:
> > 1) unchecked (and avoidable) extra error paths due to stmmac_release()
> > 2) racy cancel_work_sync. Low probability as it is, an irq + error could
> >    take place right after cancel_work_sync
> 
> It was indeed only meant as a proof of concept. Nevertheless the race is not 
> good, since one can run into it when faking the tx error for testings purposes.
> So below is a slightly improved version of the restart handling.
> Its not meant as a final version either. But maybe we can use it as a starting
> point.

Certainly works better than version we currently have in tree. I'm
running it in a loop, and it survived 10 minutes of testing so
far. (Previous version killed the hardware at first iteration.)

> Again the patch is only compile tested.

Tested-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@...x.de>

Thanks!
								Pavel

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