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Date:      Thu, 30 Jan 2020 12:56:29 -0800
From:      Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@freebsd.org>
To:        Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@freebsd.org>
Cc:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r357293 - head/sys/net
Message-ID:  <20200130205629.GK1268@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <202001301204.00UC43Rw022059@repo.freebsd.org>
References:  <202001301204.00UC43Rw022059@repo.freebsd.org>

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On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 12:04:03PM +0000, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
H> Author: hselasky
H> Date: Thu Jan 30 12:04:02 2020
H> New Revision: 357293
H> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/357293
H> 
H> Log:
H>   Widen EPOCH(9) usage in netisr.
H>   
H>   Software interrupt handlers are allowed to sleep. In swi_net() there
H>   is a read lock behind NETISR_RLOCK() which in turn ends up calling
H>   msleep() which means the whole of swi_net() cannot be protected by an
H>   EPOCH(9) section. By default the NETISR_LOCKING feature is disabled.
H>   
H>   This issue was introduced by r357004. This is a preparation step for
H>   replacing the functionality provided by r357004.
H>   
H>   Found by:	kib@
H>   Sponsored by:	Mellanox Technologies

What?! NETISR_RLOCK() which in turn ends up calling msleep()? Can you please
explain this nonsense?

-- 
Gleb Smirnoff



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