Thread (27 messages) 27 messages, 6 authors, 2013-05-30

Re: [PATCH v6 net-next 1/5] net: add napi_id and hash

From: Ben Hutchings <hidden>
Date: 2013-05-29 20:10:07
Also in: lkml

On Wed, 2013-05-29 at 09:39 +0300, Eliezer Tamir wrote:
Adds a napi_id and a hashing mechanism to lookup a napi by id.
This will be used by subsequent patches to implement low latency
Ethernet device polling.
Based on a code sample by Eric Dumazet.

Signed-off-by: Eliezer Tamir <redacted>
[...]
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
[...]
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
@@ -4136,6 +4143,53 @@ void napi_complete(struct napi_struct *n)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(napi_complete);
 
+void napi_hash_add(struct napi_struct *napi)
+{
+	if (!test_and_set_bit(NAPI_STATE_HASHED, &napi->state)) {
+
+		spin_lock(&napi_hash_lock);
+
+		/* 0 is not a valid id */
+		napi->napi_id = 0;
+		while (!napi->napi_id)
+			napi->napi_id = ++napi_gen_id;
Suppose we're loading/unloading one driver repeatedly while another one
remains loaded the whole time.  Then once napi_gen_id wraps around, the
same ID can be assigned to multiple contexts.

So far as I can see, assigning the same ID twice will just make polling
stop working for one of the NAPI contexts; I don't think it causes a
crash.  And it is exceedingly unlikely to happen in production.  But if
you're going to the trouble of handling wrap-around at all, you'd better
handle this.

[...]
+/* must be called under rcu_read_lock(), as we dont take a reference */
+struct napi_struct *napi_by_id(int napi_id)
+{
+	unsigned int hash = napi_id % HASH_SIZE(napi_hash);
[...]

napi_id should be declared unsigned int here, as elsewhere.  The
division can't actually yield a negative result because HASH_SIZE() has
type size_t and napi_id is promoted to match, but I had to go and look
at hashtable.h to check that.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings, Staff Engineer, Solarflare
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