On Wed, 2017-02-01 at 15:48 -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 3:29 PM, Cong Wang <xiyou.wangc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Not sure if it is better. The difference is caught up in
> > net_enable_timestamp(),
> > which is called setsockopt() path and sk_clone() path, so we could be
> > in netstamp_needed state for a long time too until user-space exercises
> > these paths.
> >
> > I am feeling we probably need to get rid of netstamp_needed_deferred,
> > and simply defer the whole static_key_slow_dec(), like the attached patch
> > (compile only).
> >
> > What do you think?
>
> I think we need to keep the atomic.
>
> If two cpus call net_disable_timestamp() roughly at the same time, the
> work will be scheduled once.
Updated patch (but not tested yet)
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index
7f218e095361520d11c243d650e053321ea7274f..29101c98399f40b6b8e42c31a255d8f1fb6bd7a1
100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -1695,24 +1695,19 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(net_dec_egress_queue);
static struct static_key netstamp_needed __read_mostly;
#ifdef HAVE_JUMP_LABEL
-/* We are not allowed to call static_key_slow_dec() from irq context
- * If net_disable_timestamp() is called from irq context, defer the
- * static_key_slow_dec() calls.
- */
static atomic_t netstamp_needed_deferred;
-#endif
-
-void net_enable_timestamp(void)
+static void netstamp_clear(struct work_struct *work)
{
-#ifdef HAVE_JUMP_LABEL
int deferred = atomic_xchg(&netstamp_needed_deferred, 0);
- if (deferred) {
- while (--deferred)
- static_key_slow_dec(&netstamp_needed);
- return;
- }
+ while (deferred--)
+ static_key_slow_dec(&netstamp_needed);
+}
+static DECLARE_WORK(netstamp_work, netstamp_clear);
#endif
+
+void net_enable_timestamp(void)
+{
static_key_slow_inc(&netstamp_needed);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(net_enable_timestamp);
@@ -1720,12 +1715,12 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(net_enable_timestamp);
void net_disable_timestamp(void)
{
#ifdef HAVE_JUMP_LABEL
- if (in_interrupt()) {
- atomic_inc(&netstamp_needed_deferred);
- return;
- }
-#endif
+ /* net_disable_timestamp() can be called from non process context */
+ atomic_inc(&netstamp_needed_deferred);
+ schedule_work(&netstamp_work);
+#else
static_key_slow_dec(&netstamp_needed);
+#endif
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(net_disable_timestamp);
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