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SubjectRe: [PATCH rcu/dev 1/3] net: Use call_rcu_flush() for qdisc_free_cb
On Wed, Nov 16, 2022 at 7:16 PM Joel Fernandes (Google)
<joel@joelfernandes.org> wrote:
>
> In a networking test on ChromeOS, we find that using the new CONFIG_RCU_LAZY
> causes a networking test to fail in the teardown phase.
>
> The failure happens during: ip netns del <name>
>
> Using ftrace, I found the callbacks it was queuing which this series fixes. Use
> call_rcu_flush() to revert to the old behavior. With that, the test passes.
>
> Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
> ---
> net/sched/sch_generic.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/sched/sch_generic.c b/net/sched/sch_generic.c
> index a9aadc4e6858..63fbf640d3b2 100644
> --- a/net/sched/sch_generic.c
> +++ b/net/sched/sch_generic.c
> @@ -1067,7 +1067,7 @@ static void qdisc_destroy(struct Qdisc *qdisc)
>
> trace_qdisc_destroy(qdisc);
>
> - call_rcu(&qdisc->rcu, qdisc_free_cb);
> + call_rcu_flush(&qdisc->rcu, qdisc_free_cb);
> }

I took a look at this one.

qdisc_free_cb() is essentially freeing : Some per-cpu memory, and the
'struct Qdisc'

I do not see why we need to force a flush for this (small ?) piece of memory.

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