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From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
To: Antoine Tenart <atenart@kernel.org>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, kuba@kernel.org, pabeni@redhat.com,
	gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, ebiederm@xmission.com,
	stephen@networkplumber.org, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au,
	juri.lelli@redhat.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 9/9] net-sysfs: remove the use of rtnl_trylock/restart_syscall
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2021 10:55:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YV1kjDfTE2N2XK9J@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <163350742102.4226.2656822862076181317@kwain>

On Wed 06-10-21 10:03:41, Antoine Tenart wrote:
> Quoting Michal Hocko (2021-10-06 08:45:58)
> > On Tue 28-09-21 14:55:00, Antoine Tenart wrote:
> > > The ABBA deadlock avoided by using rtnl_trylock and restart_syscall was
> > > fixed in previous commits, we can now remove the use of this
> > > trylock/restart logic and have net-sysfs operations not spinning when
> > > rtnl is already taken.
> > 
> > Shouldn't those lock be interruptible or killable at least? As mentioned
> > in other reply we are seeing multiple a contention on some sysfs file
> > because mlx driver tends to do some heavy lifting in its speed callback
> > so it would be great to be able to interact with waiters during that
> > time.
> 
> Haven't thought much about this, but it should be possible to use
> rtnl_lock_killable. I think this should be a patch on its own with its
> own justification though (to help bisecting). But that is easy to do
> once the trylock logic is gone.

Agreed

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

  reply	other threads:[~2021-10-06  8:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-28 12:54 [RFC PATCH net-next 0/9] Userspace spinning on net-sysfs access Antoine Tenart
2021-09-28 12:54 ` [RFC PATCH net-next 1/9] net-sysfs: try not to restart the syscall if it will fail eventually Antoine Tenart
2021-09-28 12:54 ` [RFC PATCH net-next 2/9] net: split unlisting the net device from unlisting its node name Antoine Tenart
2021-09-28 12:54 ` [RFC PATCH net-next 3/9] net: export netdev_name_node_lookup Antoine Tenart
2021-09-28 12:54 ` [RFC PATCH net-next 4/9] bonding: use the correct function to check for netdev name collision Antoine Tenart
2021-09-28 12:54 ` [RFC PATCH net-next 5/9] ppp: " Antoine Tenart
2021-09-28 12:54 ` [RFC PATCH net-next 6/9] net: " Antoine Tenart
2021-09-28 12:54 ` [RFC PATCH net-next 7/9] net: delay the removal of the name nodes until run_todo Antoine Tenart
2021-09-28 12:54 ` [RFC PATCH net-next 8/9] net: delay device_del " Antoine Tenart
2021-09-29  0:02   ` Jakub Kicinski
2021-09-29  8:26     ` Antoine Tenart
2021-09-29 13:31       ` Jakub Kicinski
2021-09-29 17:31         ` Antoine Tenart
2021-10-29  9:04           ` Antoine Tenart
2021-10-05 15:21         ` Antoine Tenart
2021-10-05 18:34           ` Jakub Kicinski
2021-09-28 12:55 ` [RFC PATCH net-next 9/9] net-sysfs: remove the use of rtnl_trylock/restart_syscall Antoine Tenart
2021-10-06  6:45   ` Michal Hocko
2021-10-06  8:03     ` Antoine Tenart
2021-10-06  8:55       ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2021-10-06  6:37 ` [RFC PATCH net-next 0/9] Userspace spinning on net-sysfs access Michal Hocko
2021-10-06  7:59   ` Antoine Tenart
2021-10-06  8:35     ` Michal Hocko
2021-10-29 14:33 ` Antoine Tenart
2021-10-29 15:45   ` Stephen Hemminger

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