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From: "Burakov, Anatoly" <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
To: "Tan, Jianfeng" <jianfeng.tan@intel.com>, dev@dpdk.org
Cc: thomas@monjalon.net
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/5] bus/vdev: add lock on vdev device list
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2018 16:16:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b97ab0a2-b9c6-0509-7d88-28e384feacc6@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0025fac5-c007-c793-c3f7-2168343a1026@intel.com>

On 20-Apr-18 3:19 PM, Tan, Jianfeng wrote:
> 
> 
> On 4/20/2018 4:26 PM, Burakov, Anatoly wrote:
>> On 19-Apr-18 5:50 PM, Jianfeng Tan wrote:
>>> As we could add virtual devices from different threads now, we
>>> add a spin lock to protect the vdev device list.
>>>
>>> Suggested-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Jianfeng Tan <jianfeng.tan@intel.com>
>>> Reviewed-by: Qi Zhang <qi.z.zhang@intel.com>
>>> ---
>>
>> <...>
>>
>>> +/* The caller shall be responsible for thread-safe */
>>>   static struct rte_vdev_device *
>>>   find_vdev(const char *name)
>>>   {
>>> @@ -203,10 +206,6 @@ rte_vdev_init(const char *name, const char *args)
>>>       if (name == NULL)
>>>           return -EINVAL;
>>>   -    dev = find_vdev(name);
>>> -    if (dev)
>>> -        return -EEXIST;
>>> -
>>>       devargs = alloc_devargs(name, args);
>>>       if (!devargs)
>>>           return -ENOMEM;
>>> @@ -221,16 +220,28 @@ rte_vdev_init(const char *name, const char *args)
>>>       dev->device.numa_node = SOCKET_ID_ANY;
>>>       dev->device.name = devargs->name;
>>>   +    rte_spinlock_lock(&vdev_device_list_lock);
>>> +    if (find_vdev(name)) {
>>> +        rte_spinlock_unlock(&vdev_device_list_lock);
>>> +        ret = -EEXIST;
>>> +        goto fail;
>>> +    }
>>> +    TAILQ_INSERT_TAIL(&vdev_device_list, dev, next);
>>> +    rte_spinlock_unlock(&vdev_device_list_lock);
>>> +
>>
>> I wonder if is possible to just leave the tailq locked until you 
>> either insert the device into tailq, or figure out that it's not 
>> possible? Seems like doing two locks here is unnecessary, unless 
>> vdev_probe_all_drivers needs this tailq unlocked...
> 
> My opinion is that we don't know what could be done in driver probe(). 
> It could possibly insert a new vdev (it does not happen now, but could 
> happen in future?). So here, we call this with tailq unlocked. Or we 
> keep it as simple as possible as you say?

I thought this code was responsible for inserting vdevs? I think it 
would be generally bad design to insert vdev while inserting vdev :)

That said, it's a fair point, and i don't have a strong opinion on this, 
so you can leave it as is if you want.

-- 
Thanks,
Anatoly

  reply	other threads:[~2018-04-20 15:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-04 15:30 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/4] allow procinfo and pdump on eth vdev Jianfeng Tan
2018-03-04 15:30 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/4] eal: bring forward multi-process channel init Jianfeng Tan
2018-03-04 15:30 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/4] bus/vdev: bus scan by multi-process channel Jianfeng Tan
2018-03-05  9:36   ` Burakov, Anatoly
2018-03-06  0:50     ` Tan, Jianfeng
2018-03-07 14:00   ` Burakov, Anatoly
2018-03-12  3:22     ` Tan, Jianfeng
2018-03-04 15:30 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 3/4] drivers/net: do not allocate rte_eth_dev_data privately Jianfeng Tan
2018-03-06  6:07   ` Matan Azrad
2018-03-06  8:55     ` Tan, Jianfeng
2018-03-07  6:00       ` Matan Azrad
2018-03-07  6:10         ` Matan Azrad
2018-03-12  3:40           ` Tan, Jianfeng
2018-03-04 15:30 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 4/4] drivers/net: share vdev data to secondary process Jianfeng Tan
2018-04-19 16:50 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/5] allow procinfo and pdump on eth vdev Jianfeng Tan
2018-04-19 16:50   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/5] eal: bring forward multi-process channel init Jianfeng Tan
2018-04-20  8:16     ` Burakov, Anatoly
2018-04-20 14:08       ` Tan, Jianfeng
2018-04-19 16:50   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/5] bus/vdev: add lock on vdev device list Jianfeng Tan
2018-04-20  8:26     ` Burakov, Anatoly
2018-04-20 14:19       ` Tan, Jianfeng
2018-04-20 15:16         ` Burakov, Anatoly [this message]
2018-04-20 15:23           ` Tan, Jianfeng
2018-04-19 16:50   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 3/5] bus/vdev: bus scan by multi-process channel Jianfeng Tan
2018-04-20  8:41     ` Burakov, Anatoly
2018-04-20 14:28       ` Tan, Jianfeng
2018-04-20 15:19         ` Burakov, Anatoly
2018-04-20 15:32           ` Tan, Jianfeng
2018-04-20 15:39             ` Burakov, Anatoly
2018-04-19 16:50   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 4/5] drivers/net: not use private eth dev data Jianfeng Tan
2018-04-19 16:50   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 5/5] drivers/net: share vdev data to secondary process Jianfeng Tan
2018-04-20 16:57 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 0/5] allow procinfo and pdump on eth vdev Jianfeng Tan
2018-04-20 16:57   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 1/5] eal: bring forward multi-process channel init Jianfeng Tan
2018-04-20 16:57   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 2/5] bus/vdev: add lock on vdev device list Jianfeng Tan
2018-04-23  9:47     ` Burakov, Anatoly
2018-04-20 16:57   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 3/5] bus/vdev: bus scan by multi-process channel Jianfeng Tan
2018-04-23  9:54     ` Burakov, Anatoly
2018-04-24  5:22       ` Tan, Jianfeng
2018-04-20 16:57   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 4/5] drivers/net: not use private eth dev data Jianfeng Tan
2018-04-20 16:57   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 5/5] drivers/net: share vdev data to secondary process Jianfeng Tan
2018-04-24  5:51 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 0/5] allow procinfo and pdump on eth vdev Jianfeng Tan
2018-04-24  5:51   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 1/5] eal: bring forward multi-process channel init Jianfeng Tan
2018-04-24  5:51   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 2/5] bus/vdev: add lock on vdev device list Jianfeng Tan
2018-04-24  5:51   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 3/5] bus/vdev: bus scan by multi-process channel Jianfeng Tan
2018-04-24 10:09     ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-04-24  5:51   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 4/5] drivers/net: not use private eth dev data Jianfeng Tan
2018-04-24  5:51   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 5/5] drivers/net: share vdev data to secondary process Jianfeng Tan
2018-04-24 10:32   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 0/5] allow procinfo and pdump on eth vdev Thomas Monjalon

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