Re: [PATCH RFC] virtio_net: fix refill related races
From: Rusty Russell <hidden>
Date: 2011-12-14 23:51:00
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From: Rusty Russell <hidden>
Date: 2011-12-14 23:51:00
Also in:
lkml, virtualization
On Mon, 12 Dec 2011 13:54:06 +0200, "Michael S. Tsirkin" [off-list ref] wrote:
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 09:25:07AM +1030, Rusty Russell wrote:quoted
Orthogonally, the refill-stop code is still buggy, as you noted.Sorry I don't understand how it's still buggy.
Both places where we call: cancel_delayed_work_sync(&vi->refill); Do not actually guarantee that vi->refill isn't running, because it can requeue itself. A 'bool no_more_refill' field seems like the simplest fix for this, but I don't think it's sufficient. Tejun, is this correct? What's the correct way to synchronously stop a delayed_work which can "schedule_delayed_work(&vi->refill, HZ/2);" on itself? Thanks, Rusty.