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From: Elad Nachman <eladv6@gmail.com>
To: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Cc: Eric Christian <erclists@gmail.com>, dev <dev@dpdk.org>,
	Igor Ryzhov <iryzhov@nfware.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] kni: Fix request overwritten
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2021 17:25:19 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACXF7qna7NexGNtpmjoC6k75V4=iOXQA7nTuwAC0cWwOEZu_DA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3ae193df-292c-4907-df4a-88ce3d6735fc@intel.com>

1. Userspace will get an error
2. Waiting with rtnl locked causes a deadlock; waiting with rtnl unlocked
for interface down command causes a crash because of a race condition in
the device delete/unregister list in the kernel.

FYI,

Elad.

בתאריך יום ב׳, 4 באוק׳ 2021, 17:13, מאת Ferruh Yigit ‏<
ferruh.yigit@intel.com>:

> On 10/4/2021 2:09 PM, Elad Nachman wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > EAGAIN is propogated back to the kernel and to the caller.
> >
>
> So will the user get an error, or it will be handled by the kernel and
> retried?
>
> > We cannot retry from the kni kernel module since we hold the rtnl lock.
> >
>
> Why not? We are already waiting until a command time out, like
> 'kni_net_open()'
> can retry if 'kni_net_process_request()' returns '-EAGAIN'. And we can
> limit the
> number of retry for safety.
>
> > FYI,
> >
> > Elad
> >
> > בתאריך יום ב׳, 4 באוק׳ 2021, 16:05, מאת Ferruh Yigit ‏<
> > ferruh.yigit@intel.com>:
> >
> >> On 9/24/2021 11:54 AM, Elad Nachman wrote:
> >>> Fix lack of multiple KNI requests handling support by introducing a
> >>> request in progress flag which will fail additional requests with
> >>> EAGAIN return code if the original request has not been processed
> >>> by user-space.
> >>>
> >>> Bugzilla ID: 809
> >>
> >> Hi Eric,
> >>
> >> Can you please test this patch, if it solves the issue you reported?
> >>
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Elad Nachman <eladv6@gmail.com>
> >>> ---
> >>>  kernel/linux/kni/kni_net.c | 9 +++++++++
> >>>  lib/kni/rte_kni.c          | 2 ++
> >>>  lib/kni/rte_kni_common.h   | 1 +
> >>>  3 files changed, 12 insertions(+)
> >>>
> >>
> >> <...>
> >>
> >>> @@ -123,7 +124,15 @@ kni_net_process_request(struct net_device *dev,
> >> struct rte_kni_request *req)
> >>>
> >>>       mutex_lock(&kni->sync_lock);
> >>>
> >>> +     /* Check that existing request has been processed: */
> >>> +     cur_req = (struct rte_kni_request *)kni->sync_kva;
> >>> +     if (cur_req->req_in_progress) {
> >>> +             ret = -EAGAIN;
> >>
> >> Overall logic in the KNI looks good to me, this helps to serialize the
> >> requests
> >> even for async ones.
> >>
> >> But can you please clarify how it behaves in the kernel side with
> '-EAGAIN'
> >> return type? Will linux call the ndo again, or will it just fail.
> >>
> >> If it just fails should we handle the re-try on '-EAGAIN' within the kni
> >> module?
> >>
> >>
>
>

  reply	other threads:[~2021-10-04 14:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-24 10:54 Elad Nachman
2021-10-04 13:01 ` Ferruh Yigit
2021-10-04 13:09   ` Elad Nachman
2021-10-04 14:03     ` Ferruh Yigit
2021-10-04 14:25       ` Elad Nachman [this message]
2021-10-04 14:51         ` Ferruh Yigit
2021-10-04 14:58           ` Elad Nachman
2021-10-04 15:48             ` Ferruh Yigit
2021-10-04 16:18               ` Elad Nachman
2021-10-04 16:59                 ` Eric Christian
2021-10-04 18:27                   ` Elad Nachman
2021-10-08 20:23                     ` Ferruh Yigit
2021-10-08 21:11                 ` Ferruh Yigit
2021-10-04 14:14   ` Eric Christian
2021-10-04 14:56     ` Ferruh Yigit

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