netdev - Re: [PATCH net 0/6][pull request] iavf: get rid of the crit lock

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Message-ID: <20250605080021.3a22f581@kernel.org>
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2025 08:00:21 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@...el.com>, przemyslaw.kitszel@...el.com
Cc: davem@...emloft.net, pabeni@...hat.com, edumazet@...gle.com,
 andrew+netdev@...n.ch, netdev@...r.kernel.org, sdf@...ichev.me
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 0/6][pull request] iavf: get rid of the crit lock

On Tue,  3 Jun 2025 10:17:01 -0700 Tony Nguyen wrote:
> Fix some deadlocks in iavf, and make it less error prone for the future.
> 
> Patch 1 is simple and independent from the rest.
> Patches 2, 3, 4 are strictly a refactor, but it enables the last patch
> 	to be much smaller.
> 	(Technically Jake given his RB tags not knowing I will send it to -net).
> Patch 5 just adds annotations, this also helps prove last patch to be correct.
> Patch 6 removes the crit lock, with its unusual try_lock()s.
> 
> I have more refactoring for scheduling done for -next, to be sent soon.
> 
> There is a simple test:
>  add VF; decrease number of queueus; remove VF
> that was way too hard to pass without this series :)

Nice work, thank you!