Hello, everyone. I am modifying the datapath of ovs to queue incoming packets and delay the time of process of them. In datapath.c, I added codes creating a thread that inputs incoming packets to a queue, and process them later (in regular). Once ovs_dp_process_received_packet() is called, it queues an incoming packet to my queue and return, and later my thread process packets queued through calling ovs_dp_process_received_packet() again. To do that, points of vport and sk_buff should be queued and dequeued. I used udelay() to make my thread process its job in regular. But, when I loaded my modified module into kernel, it made kernel frozen. I do not know how to debug kernel well, but I checked log of dmesg and I could not find any reason. So, I replaced udelay() with schedule_timeout(), and at that time kernel did not die. However, after a few seconds, the kernel died too. I do not understand why this happened. I used spinlock technique to protect my queue between regular datapath and the process of my thread. raw_spin_lock_irqsave() and raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore() were used, because spin_lock() and spin_unlock() freeze kernel (I do not understand). Does anyone know why this happened and what I have to do? - Namwon An _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
