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Date:      Fri, 23 Dec 2022 11:15:01 +0000
From:      "Alexander V. Chernikov" <melifaro@ipfw.ru>
To:        Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>
Cc:        Zhenlei Huang <zlei.huang@gmail.com>, freebsd-jail@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Is it possible to employ epoch to simplify managing prison lifecycle
Message-ID:  <4E70D6D2-4E80-4AAD-BB3C-9295F586D1FF@ipfw.ru>
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> On 16 Dec 2022, at 16:29, Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com> wrote:
>=20
> On 12/16/22, Zhenlei Huang <zlei.huang@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>=20
>> While hacking `sys/kern/kern_jail.c` I got lost.
>>=20
>> There're lots of ref / unref and flags to prevent visit invalid =
prison
>> while
>> concurrent modification is possible and some refs looks weird.
>>=20
>> Is it possible to employ epoch(9) to simplify managing of prison =
lifecycle
>> ?
>>=20
>=20
> Some of the ref/unref cycles are probably avoidable to begin with, but
> ultimately the thing to do here is to employ per-cpu reference
> counting, if at all needed.
>=20
> I have a wip patch to provide such a mechanism, it may or may not land
> this month.
That would be nice. I=E2=80=99d love to convert nextops refcounting to =
that one.
Do you envision similar semantics as Linux percpu_ref? I mean, does one =
need to explicitly mark =E2=80=9Cnot in active use=E2=80=9D stage?
>=20
> --=20
> Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik gmail.com>
>=20




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