net: sched: flower: handle concurrent tcf proto deletion
authorVlad Buslov <vladbu@mellanox.com>
Thu, 21 Mar 2019 13:17:41 +0000 (15:17 +0200)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Thu, 21 Mar 2019 21:32:17 +0000 (14:32 -0700)
commit272ffaadeb3e739baa70aef7e92ad844b62b3304
treef513dd4df2cd39594bb93390b309f7a04d8322ee
parent9a2d93899897efb0702f97e71387f9d0ae94a9d5
net: sched: flower: handle concurrent tcf proto deletion

Without rtnl lock protection tcf proto can be deleted concurrently. Check
tcf proto 'deleting' flag after taking tcf spinlock to verify that no
concurrent deletion is in progress. Return EAGAIN error if concurrent
deletion detected, which will cause caller to retry and possibly create new
instance of tcf proto.

Retry mechanism is a result of fine-grained locking approach used in this
and previous changes in series and is necessary to allow concurrent updates
on same chain instance. Alternative approach would be to lock the whole
chain while updating filters on any of child tp's, adding and removing
classifier instances from the chain. However, since most CPU-intensive
parts of filter update code are specifically in classifier code and its
dependencies (extensions and hw offloads), such approach would negate most
of the gains introduced by this change and previous changes in the series
when updating same chain instance.

Signed-off-by: Vlad Buslov <vladbu@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net/sched/cls_flower.c