netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2 08/10] net: sched: protect block idr with spinlock

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Message-ID: <vbftvmkzkln.fsf@reg-r-vrt-018-180.mtr.labs.mlnx>
Date:   Thu, 20 Sep 2018 10:36:20 +0300
From:   Vlad Buslov <vladbu@...lanox.com>
To:     Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
Cc:     Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>,
        Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
        Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@...tuozzo.com>,
        Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>,
        Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, mark.rutland@....com,
        Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>,
        David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>, christian@...uner.io,
        lucien xin <lucien.xin@...il.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>,
        Jiri Benc <jbenc@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 08/10] net: sched: protect block idr with spinlock


On Wed 19 Sep 2018 at 22:09, Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 12:19 AM Vlad Buslov <vladbu@...lanox.com> wrote:
>> @@ -482,16 +483,25 @@ static int tcf_block_insert(struct tcf_block *block, struct net *net,
>>                             struct netlink_ext_ack *extack)
>>  {
>>         struct tcf_net *tn = net_generic(net, tcf_net_id);
>> +       int err;
>> +
>> +       idr_preload(GFP_KERNEL);
>> +       spin_lock(&tn->idr_lock);
>> +       err = idr_alloc_u32(&tn->idr, block, &block->index, block->index,
>> +                           GFP_NOWAIT);
>
>
> Why GFP_NOWAIT rather than GFP_ATOMIC here?

I checked how idr_preload is used in kernel and in most places following
allocation uses GFP_NOWAIT (including idr-test.c). You suggest I should
change it to GFP_ATOMIC?