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SubjectRe: [PATCH 6/6] tilegx network driver: initial support
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On Thursday 12 April 2012, Chris Metcalf wrote:
> On 4/10/2012 6:42 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > Ok, but please remove tile_net_devs then.
> > I think a better abstraction for tile_net_devs_for_channel would be
> > some interface that lets you add private data to a channel so when
> > you get data from a channel, you can extract that pointer from the driver
> > using the channel.

> I think what would be clearer is to document how and why we are using this
> additional data structure. We do access via both arrays where it is
> efficient to do so, so getting rid of either of them doesn't seem right.
> Let's keep the "normal" tile_net_devs[] as is, indexed by devno, and make
> the tile_net_devs_for_channel[] more abstracted by using the following code:

The tile_net_devs still feels dirty. You basically only
use it in tile_net_handle_egress_timer(), but there you don't
actually take the mutex that protects addition and removal from
the array, so it's racy in case of hotplug.

A more conservative way to do this is to have the timer per
device (or by channel, if you like), so it does not have to
iterate the array.

> /*
> * Provide support for efficiently mapping a channel to the device
> * that is using that channel, or NULL if none. The pointers in this
> * array are only non-NULL when pointing to active tilegx net_device
> * structures, and they are cleared before the struture itself is
> * released.
> *
> * HACK: We use "32", not TILE_NET_CHANNELS, because it is fairly
> * subtle that the 5 bit "idesc.channel" field never exceeds
> * TILE_NET_CHANNELS.
> */
> static struct net_device *channel_to_dev[32];
>
> static void bychannel_add(struct net_device *dev)
> {
> struct tile_net_priv *priv = netdev_priv(dev);
> BUG_ON(channel_to_dev[priv->channel] != NULL);
> channel_to_dev[priv->channel] = dev;
> }
>
> static void bychannel_delete(struct net_device *dev)
> {
> struct tile_net_priv *priv = netdev_priv(dev);
> channel_to_dev[priv->channel] = NULL;
> }
>
> static inline struct net_device *bychannel_lookup(int channel)
> {
> return channel_to_dev[channel];
> }
>
>
> We then call bychannel_add() in the open method, and bychannel_delete() in
> the close method, so it's clear that the pointers have appropriate lifetimes.

Ok.

Arnd


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