Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Mon, 16 Jan 2023 09:08:37 +0100 | From | Clément Léger <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH net-next] net: dsa: rzn1-a5psw: Add vlan support |
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Le Fri, 13 Jan 2023 17:37:30 +0200, Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com> a écrit :
> On Fri, Jan 13, 2023 at 03:12:40PM +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 12, 2023 at 09:37:55PM -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote: > > > On Wed, 11 Jan 2023 12:56:07 +0100 Clément Léger wrote: > > > > Add support for vlan operation (add, del, filtering) on the RZN1 > > > > driver. The a5psw switch supports up to 32 VLAN IDs with filtering, > > > > tagged/untagged VLANs and PVID for each ports. > > > > > > noob question - do you need that mutex? > > > aren't those ops all under rtnl_lock? > > > > Hi Jakub > > > > Not commenting about this specific patch, but not everything in DSA is > > done under RTNL. So you need to deal with some parallel API calls. But > > they tend to be in different areas. I would not expect to see two VLAN > > changes as the same time, but maybe VLAN and polling in a workqueue to > > update the statistics for example could happen. Depending on the > > switch, some protect might be needed to stop these operations > > interfering with each other. And DSA drivers in general tend to KISS > > and over lock. Nothing here is particularly hot path, the switch > > itself is on the end of a slow bus, so the overhead of locks are > > minimum. > > That being said, port_vlan_add(), port_vlan_del() and port_vlan_filtering() > are all serialized by the rtnl_lock().
Ok then, I'll remove this lock and rely on the RTNL lock.
Thanks,
-- Clément Léger, Embedded Linux and Kernel engineer at Bootlin https://bootlin.com
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