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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2.5] fixes for airo.c


On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Daniel Ritz wrote:

> On Mon July 21 2003 13:00, Javier Achirica wrote:
> >
> > Daniel,
> >
> > Thank you for your patch. Some comments about it:
> >
> > - I'd rather fix whatever is broken in the current code than going back to
> > spinlocks, as they increase latency and reduce concurrency. In any case,
> > please check your code. I've seen a spinlock in the interrupt handler that
> > may lock the system.
>
> but we need to protect from interrupts while accessing the card and waiting for
> completion. semaphores don't protect you from that. spin_lock_irqsave does. the
> spin_lock in the interrupt handler is there to protect from interrupts from
> other processors in a SMP system (see Documentation/spinlocks.txt) and is btw.
> a no-op on UP. and semaphores are quite heavy....

Not really. You can still read the received packets from the card (as
you're not issuing any command and are using the other BAP) while a
command is in progress. There are some specific cases in which you need
to have protection, and that cases are avoided with the down_trylock.

AFAIK, interrupt serialization is assured by the interrupt handler, so you
don't need to do that.

> > - The fix for the transmit code you mention, is about fixing the returned
> > value in case of error? If not, please explain it to me as I don't see any
> > other changes.
>
> fixes:
> - return values
> - when to free the skb, when not
> - disabling the queues
> - netif_wake_queue called from the interrupt handler only (and on the right
> net_device)
> - i think the priv->xmit stuff and then the schedule_work is evil:
> if you return 0 from the dev->hard_start_xmit then the network layer assumes
> that the packet was kfree_skb()'ed (which does only frees the packet when the
> refcount drops to zero.) this is the cause for the keventd killing, for sure!
>
> if you return 0 you already kfree_skb()'ed the packet. and that's it.

This is where I have the biggest problems. As I've read in
Documentation/networking/driver.txt, looks like the packet needs to be
freed "soon", but doesn't require to be before returning 0 in
hard_start_xmit. Did I get it wrong?

Thanks for your help,
Javier Achirica


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