netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 net] net/sched: make dev_trans_start() have a better chance of working with stacked interfaces

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Date:   Wed, 27 Jul 2022 16:17:25 +0000
From:   Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>
To:     Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
CC:     "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...il.com>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Jonathan Toppins <jtoppins@...hat.com>,
        Jay Vosburgh <j.vosburgh@...il.com>,
        Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@...il.com>,
        Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@...il.com>,
        Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>,
        Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>,
        Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>,
        Brian Hutchinson <b.hutchman@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net] net/sched: make dev_trans_start() have a better
 chance of working with stacked interfaces

On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 08:44:04AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Jul 2022 18:20:00 +0300
> Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com> wrote:
> 
> > +	do {
> > +		have_lowers = false;
> > +
> > +		netdev_for_each_lower_dev(dev, lower, iter) {
> > +			have_lowers = true;
> > +			dev = lower;
> > +			break;
> > +		}
> > +	} while (have_lower
> 
> Would be clearer if this was a helper function.
> Something like dev_leaf_device?

Probably dev_leaf_device_rcu() I presume, so that the caller takes and
keeps the RCU critical section for as long as the leaf device is
actually being used, right?