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SubjectRe: [PATCH net-next v2] net: sched: don't disable bh when accessing action idr
Mon, May 21, 2018 at 10:03:04PM CEST, vladbu@mellanox.com wrote:
>Initial net_device implementation used ingress_lock spinlock to synchronize
>ingress path of device. This lock was used in both process and bh context.
>In some code paths action map lock was obtained while holding ingress_lock.
>Commit e1e992e52faa ("[NET_SCHED] protect action config/dump from irqs")
>modified actions to always disable bh, while using action map lock, in
>order to prevent deadlock on ingress_lock in softirq. This lock was removed
>from net_device, so disabling bh, while accessing action map, is no longer
>necessary.
>
>Replace all action idr spinlock usage with regular calls that do not
>disable bh.
>
>Signed-off-by: Vlad Buslov <vladbu@mellanox.com>

Please add my tag to v3, with the description changes requested by Cong.
Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>

Thanks!

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