Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] virtio-net: fix a race on 32bit arches | From | Ben Hutchings <> | Date | Wed, 6 Jun 2012 21:35:04 +0100 |
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On Wed, 2012-06-06 at 23:16 +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 10:08:09PM +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote: > > On Wed, 2012-06-06 at 22:58 +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > > > > Absolutely, I am talking about virtio here. I'm not kicking > > > u64_stats_sync idea I am just saying that simple locking > > > would work for virtio and might be better as it > > > gives us a way to get counters atomically. > > > > Which lock do you own in the RX path ? > > We can just disable napi, everything is updated from napi callback.
Seriously, though: don't do that; this is going to hurt performance for minimal benefit.
Ben.
> > You'll have to add a lock in fast path. This sounds really a bad choice > > to me. > > .ndo_get_stats64 is not data path though, is it? >
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