[ovs-dev] [PATCH] openvswitch: Disable bottom half when grabbing stats lock in userspace context

Zoltan Kiss zoltan.kiss at citrix.com
Thu Feb 27 22:10:37 UTC 2014


On 27/02/14 22:04, Zoltan Kiss wrote:
> The megaflow feature introduced per-CPU stats, and the new code did some
> refactoring as well [1]. However the new functions doesn't disable bottom halves
> when locking the stat, and as they can be called from userspace context, they
> can be interrupted by netif_receive_skb.

Just forget about this, I'll send in soon the version with *_bh locks.

Zoli



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