From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:30:19 +1000

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> David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> >
> > The qdisc pointer traverses to the softirq handler, which can be run
> > in a process context (via ksoftirqd), and this pointer gets there
> > via the per-cpu ->output_queue.
> 
> Here are two possible solutions:
> 
> 1) The active way: smp_call_function and forcibly remove the qdiscs
> in question from each output_queue.
> 
> 2) The passive way: Make dev_deactive call yield() until no qdisc's
> are on an output_queue.  This assumes there is some sort of dead
> flag detection on the output_queue side so it doesn't keep going
> forever.

Yes, we'll need some kind of dead flag it seems.

Another thing we can do is, in the yield loop, grabbing the
__QDISC_STATE_RUNNING bit.

But actually, I think Jarek has a point.

The existing loop there in dev_deactivate() should work _iff_ we make
it look at the proper qdisc.

This is another case where I didn't transform things correctly.  The
old code worked on dev->state since that's where we kept what used
to be __LINK_STATE_QDISC_RUNNING.

But now that state is kept in the qdisc itself.  But we just zapped
the active qdisc, so the old one is in ->qdisc_sleeping not ->qdisc.

So, just like one of Jarek's patches, we should simply change
dev_queue->qdisc into dev_queue->qdisc_sleeping and that should
take care of the bulk of the issues.

Shouldn't it?

Hmmm... maybe we have to sample __QDISC_STATE_SCHED too.


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