Development issues regarding the cerowrt test router project
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From: Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com>
To: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: cerowrt@lists.bufferbloat.net,
	"cerowrt-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net"
	<cerowrt-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net>
Subject: Re: [Cerowrt-devel] Fwd: [bug #442] ath9k queue hang
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 08:34:16 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAA93jw4tWcczq1u3kjfd-i2sH5zDxh-v2MRNfB=dJxbJfdnaJQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <534E8168.50003@openwrt.org>

On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 6:11 AM, Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> wrote:
> On 2014-04-15 21:00, Dave Taht wrote:
>> Thx felix!
>>
>> Given that there seems to be a potential race in the code
>> review I did at:
>>
>> http://www.bufferbloat.net/issues/442#note-22
>>
>> another thought is to make the increment and decrement of
>>
>> txq->pending_frame atomic, or to do a flush before the unlock
> I'm not convinced that there's a race that involves txq->pending_frames.
> There is no need to make the increment/decrement atomic, because that
> variable is already protected by the txq lock.

It and "stopped" are briefly unprotected along that code path.

>
>> What tree is this patch against?
> mac80211 from OpenWrt trunk.

Thx, will try your patch today.

> - Felix



-- 
Dave Täht

NSFW: https://w2.eff.org/Censorship/Internet_censorship_bills/russell_0296_indecent.article

  reply	other threads:[~2014-04-16 15:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-15 19:00 Dave Taht
2014-04-16 13:11 ` Felix Fietkau
2014-04-16 15:34   ` Dave Taht [this message]
2014-04-16 16:55     ` Felix Fietkau
2014-04-16 17:00       ` Dave Taht
2014-04-16 17:25         ` Robert Bradley
2014-04-16 17:38           ` Dave Taht
2014-04-16 21:05             ` Felix Fietkau

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