netdev - Re: [net-next, v2, 2/2] enetc: support PTP Sync packet one-step timestamping

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Date:   Fri, 9 Apr 2021 09:09:39 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Claudiu Manoil <claudiu.manoil@....com>
Cc:     "Y.b. Lu" <yangbo.lu@....com>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com>,
        Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [net-next, v2, 2/2] enetc: support PTP Sync packet one-step
 timestamping

On Fri, 9 Apr 2021 06:37:53 +0000 Claudiu Manoil wrote:
> >On Thu, 8 Apr 2021 09:02:50 -0700 Jakub Kicinski wrote:  
> >> 		if (priv->flags & ONESTEP_BUSY) {
> >> 			skb_queue_tail(&priv->tx_skbs, skb);
> >> 			return ...;
> >> 		}
> >> 		priv->flags |= ONESTEP_BUSY;  
> >
> >Ah, if you have multiple queues this needs to be under a separate
> >spinlock, 'cause netif_tx_lock() won't be enough.  
> 
> Please try test_and_set_bit_lock()/ clear_bit_unlock() based on Jakub's
> suggestion, and see if it works for you / whether it can replace the mutex.

I was thinking that with multiple queues just a bit won't be sufficient
because:

xmit:				work:
test_bit... // already set
				dequeue // empty
enqueue
				clear_bit()

That frame will never get sent, no?

Note that skb_queue already has a lock so you'd just need to make that
lock protect the flag/bit as well, overall the number of locks remains
the same. Take the queue's lock, check the flag, use
__skb_queue_tail(), release etc.