On Fri, 12 May 2017 14:56:45 +0300
Saeed Mahameed wrote:
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en.h
> b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en.h
> index 0099a3e397bc..c41cf7e82795 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en.h
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellan
From: Saeed Mahameed
Date: Sun, 14 May 2017 11:52:13 +0300
> I agree, it is really ridiculous that we allocate/free a couple of
> buffers on each update_stats operations, regardless of this patch.
> Is it ok if we use a temp buffer under netdev_priv for such usages or
> even use kmemcache ?
If y
On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 7:13 PM, David Miller wrote:
> From: Saeed Mahameed
> Date: Fri, 12 May 2017 14:56:45 +0300
>
>> From: Gal Pressman
>>
>> Add a spinlock to prevent races when querying statistics, for example
>> querying counters in the middle of a non atomic memcpy() operation in
>> mlx5
From: Saeed Mahameed
Date: Fri, 12 May 2017 14:56:45 +0300
> From: Gal Pressman
>
> Add a spinlock to prevent races when querying statistics, for example
> querying counters in the middle of a non atomic memcpy() operation in
> mlx5e_update_stats().
>
> This RW lock should be held when accessi
From: Gal Pressman
Add a spinlock to prevent races when querying statistics, for example
querying counters in the middle of a non atomic memcpy() operation in
mlx5e_update_stats().
This RW lock should be held when accessing priv->stats, to prevent other
reads/writes.
Fixes: 9218b44dcc05 ("net/m
