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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Rakesh Pillai <pillair@codeaurora.org>, ath10k@lists.infradead.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, evgreen@chromium.org,
	dianders@chromium.org, kuba@kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net,
	kvalo@codeaurora.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 1/7] mac80211: Add check for napi handle before WARN_ON
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2020 14:40:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <446c9e45b5e904fa747c3d727a2c39ee904789e0.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000e01d66368$9a6ece70$cf4c6b50$@codeaurora.org>

On Sun, 2020-07-26 at 21:49 +0530, Rakesh Pillai wrote:

> We do have the usage of napi_gro_receive and netif_receive_skb in mac80211.
>                 /* deliver to local stack */
>                 if (rx->napi)
>                         napi_gro_receive(rx->napi, skb);
>                 else
>                         netif_receive_skb(skb);
> 
> 
> Also all the rx_handlers are called under the " rx->local->rx_path_lock" lock.
> Is the BH disable still required ?

I tend to think so, but you're welcome to show that it's not. The lock
serves a different purpose.

TBH, I don't have all of this in my head at all times either, so please
do your own work and analyse why it may or may not be necessary. But
without any such analysis I'm not going to take patches that change it.

johannes


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  reply	other threads:[~2020-07-30 12:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-21 17:14 [RFC 0/7] Add support to process rx packets in thread Rakesh Pillai
2020-07-21 17:14 ` [RFC 1/7] mac80211: Add check for napi handle before WARN_ON Rakesh Pillai
2020-07-22 12:56   ` Johannes Berg
2020-07-23 18:26     ` Rakesh Pillai
2020-07-23 20:06       ` Johannes Berg
2020-07-24  6:21         ` Rakesh Pillai
2020-07-26 16:19         ` Rakesh Pillai
2020-07-30 12:40           ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2020-07-21 17:14 ` [RFC 2/7] ath10k: Add support to process rx packet in thread Rakesh Pillai
2020-07-21 21:53   ` Rajkumar Manoharan
2020-07-22 12:27     ` Felix Fietkau
2020-07-22 12:55       ` Johannes Berg
2020-07-22 13:00         ` Felix Fietkau
2020-07-23  6:09           ` Rajkumar Manoharan
2021-03-22 23:57           ` Ben Greear
2021-03-23  1:20             ` Brian Norris
2021-03-23  3:01               ` Ben Greear
2021-03-23  7:45                 ` Felix Fietkau
2021-03-25  9:45                   ` Rakesh Pillai
2021-03-25 10:33                     ` Felix Fietkau
2020-07-23 18:25     ` Rakesh Pillai
2020-07-24 23:11       ` Jacob Keller
2020-07-21 17:14 ` [RFC 3/7] ath10k: Add module param to enable rx thread Rakesh Pillai
2020-07-21 17:14 ` [RFC 4/7] ath10k: Do not exhaust budget on process tx completion Rakesh Pillai
2020-07-21 17:14 ` [RFC 5/7] ath10k: Handle the rx packet processing in thread Rakesh Pillai
2020-07-21 17:14 ` [RFC 6/7] ath10k: Add deliver to stack from thread context Rakesh Pillai
2020-07-21 17:14 ` [RFC 7/7] ath10k: Handle rx thread suspend and resume Rakesh Pillai
2020-07-23 23:06   ` Sebastian Gottschall
2020-07-24  6:19     ` Rakesh Pillai
2020-07-21 17:25 ` [RFC 0/7] Add support to process rx packets in thread Andrew Lunn
2020-07-21 18:05   ` Florian Fainelli
2020-07-23 18:21     ` Rakesh Pillai
2020-07-23 19:02       ` Florian Fainelli
2020-07-24  6:20         ` Rakesh Pillai
2020-07-24 22:28           ` Florian Fainelli
2020-07-22  9:12   ` David Laight
2020-07-25  8:16     ` Hillf Danton
2020-07-25 10:38       ` Sebastian Gottschall
2020-07-25 12:25         ` Hillf Danton
2020-07-25 14:08         ` Sebastian Gottschall
2020-07-25 14:57           ` Hillf Danton
2020-07-25 15:41             ` Sebastian Gottschall
2020-07-26 11:16               ` David Laight
2020-07-28 16:59                 ` Rakesh Pillai
2020-07-29  1:34                   ` Hillf Danton
2020-07-25 17:57       ` Felix Fietkau
2020-07-26  1:22         ` Hillf Danton
2020-07-26  8:10           ` Felix Fietkau
2020-07-26  8:32             ` Hillf Danton
2020-07-26  8:59               ` Felix Fietkau
2020-07-22 16:20   ` Jakub Kicinski

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