Re: [PATCH v4 net-next 11/19] ionic: Add Rx filter and rx_mode ndo support

[Shannon Nelson <snelson@pensando.io>]

On 7/23/19 2:33 PM, David Miller wrote:
> From: Shannon Nelson <snelson@pensando.io>
> Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2019 14:40:15 -0700
>
>> +	if (in_interrupt()) {
>> +		work = kzalloc(sizeof(*work), GFP_ATOMIC);
>> +		if (!work) {
>> +			netdev_err(lif->netdev, "%s OOM\n", __func__);
>> +			return -ENOMEM;
>> +		}
>> +		work->type = add ? DW_TYPE_RX_ADDR_ADD : DW_TYPE_RX_ADDR_DEL;
>> +		memcpy(work->addr, addr, ETH_ALEN);
>> +		netdev_dbg(lif->netdev, "deferred: rx_filter %s %pM\n",
>> +			   add ? "add" : "del", addr);
>> +		ionic_lif_deferred_enqueue(&lif->deferred, work);
>> +	} else {
>> +		netdev_dbg(lif->netdev, "rx_filter %s %pM\n",
>> +			   add ? "add" : "del", addr);
>> +		if (add)
>> +			return ionic_lif_addr_add(lif, addr);
>> +		else
>> +			return ionic_lif_addr_del(lif, addr);
>> +	}
> I don't know about this.
>
> Generally interface address changes are expected to be synchronous.
Yeah, this bothers me a bit as well, but the address change calls come 
in under spin_lock_bh(), and I'm reluctant to make an AdminQ call under 
the _bh that could block for a few seconds.

sln