Re: [PATCH net] net: systemport: Add global locking for descriptor lifecycle

From: patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
Date: Thu Dec 16 2021 - 15:51:49 EST


Hello:

This patch was applied to netdev/net.git (master)
by Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>:

On Wed, 15 Dec 2021 12:24:49 -0800 you wrote:
> The descriptor list is a shared resource across all of the transmit queues, and
> the locking mechanism used today only protects concurrency across a given
> transmit queue between the transmit and reclaiming. This creates an opportunity
> for the SYSTEMPORT hardware to work on corrupted descriptors if we have
> multiple producers at once which is the case when using multiple transmit
> queues.
>
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
- [net] net: systemport: Add global locking for descriptor lifecycle
https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/8b8e6e782456

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