Re: [PATCH net 0/2] bond: fix xfrm offload feature during init
From: Hangbin Liu
Date: Mon Jan 06 2025 - 05:47:28 EST
On Thu, Jan 02, 2025 at 11:33:34AM +0800, Jianbo Liu wrote:
> > > Re-locking doesn't look great, glancing at the code I don't see any
> > > obvious better workarounds. Easiest fix would be to don't let the
> > > drivers sleep in the callbacks and then we can go back to a spin lock.
> > > Maybe nvidia people have better ideas, I'm not familiar with this
> > > offload.
> >
> > I don't know how to disable bonding sleeping since we use mutex_lock now.
> > Hi Jianbo, do you have any idea?
> >
>
> I think we should allow drivers to sleep in the callbacks. So, maybe it's
> better to move driver's xdo_dev_state_delete out of state's spin lock.
I just check the code, xfrm_dev_state_delete() and later
dev->xfrmdev_ops->xdo_dev_state_delete(x) have too many xfrm_state x
checks. Can we really move it out of spin lock from xfrm_state_delete()
Thanks
Hangbin