On Mon, Nov 08, 2021 at 03:31:26PM -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote:

On Mon, 8 Nov 2021 21:58:36 +0200 Leon Romanovsky wrote:

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nfp will benefit from the simplified locking as well, and so will bnxt,
although I'm not sure the maintainers will opt for using devlink framework
due to the downstream requirements.    

Exactly why devlink should be fixed first.  

If by "fixed first" you mean it needs 5 locks to be added and to remove
any guarantees on sub-object lifetime then no thanks.  

How do you plan to fix pernet_ops_rwsem lock? By exposing devlink state
to the drivers? By providing unlocked version of unregister_netdevice_notifier?

This simple scenario has deadlocks:
sudo ip netns add n1
sudo devlink dev reload pci/0000:00:09.0 netns n1
sudo ip netns del n1

Okay - I'm not sure why you're asking me this. This is not related to
devlink locking as far as I can tell. Neither are you fixing this
problem in your own RFC.

I asked you because you clearly showed to me that things that makes
sense for me, doesn't make sense for you and vice versa.

I don't want to do work that will be thrown away.

You'd need to tell me more about what the notifier is used for (I see
RoCE in the call trace). I don't understand why you need to re-register 
a global (i.e. not per netns) notifier when devlink is switching name
spaces.

RDMA subsystem supports two net namespace aware scenarios.

We need global netdev_notifier for shared mode. This is legacy mode where
we listen to all namespaces. We must support this mode otherwise we break
whole RDMA world.

See commit below:
de641d74fb00 ("Revert "RDMA/mlx5: Fix devlink deadlock on net namespace deletion"")

Thanks