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# ecefbc09 20-Jun-2024 Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <[email protected]>

net: softnet_data: Make xmit per task.

Softirq is preemptible on PREEMPT_RT. Without a per-CPU lock in
local_bh_disable() there is no guarantee that only one device is
transmitting at a time.
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net: softnet_data: Make xmit per task.

Softirq is preemptible on PREEMPT_RT. Without a per-CPU lock in
local_bh_disable() there is no guarantee that only one device is
transmitting at a time.
With preemption and multiple senders it is possible that the per-CPU
`recursion' counter gets incremented by different threads and exceeds
XMIT_RECURSION_LIMIT leading to a false positive recursion alert.
The `more' member is subject to similar problems if set by one thread
for one driver and wrongly used by another driver within another thread.

Instead of adding a lock to protect the per-CPU variable it is simpler
to make xmit per-task. Sending and receiving skbs happens always
in thread context anyway.

Having a lock to protected the per-CPU counter would block/ serialize two
sending threads needlessly. It would also require a recursive lock to
ensure that the owner can increment the counter further.

Make the softnet_data.xmit a task_struct member on PREEMPT_RT. Add
needed wrapper.

Cc: Ben Segall <[email protected]>
Cc: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <[email protected]>
Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <[email protected]>
Cc: Juri Lelli <[email protected]>
Cc: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>
Cc: Valentin Schneider <[email protected]>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <[email protected]>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]>

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