On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 10:19:09AM +0200, Sven Wegener wrote: > On Mon, 11 Aug 2008, Simon Horman wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 08:43:54AM +0200, Sven Wegener wrote: > > > On Mon, 11 Aug 2008, Simon Horman wrote: > > > > > > > On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 08:35:48PM +0200, Sven Wegener wrote: > > > > > On Sun, 10 Aug 2008, sven.wegener@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Hi guys, > > > > > > > > > > > > here come a couple of fixes and cleanups for IPVS. Worth mentioning are the two > > > > > > possible deadlock fixes. One introduced by my last sync daemon work, which > > > > > > hasn't hit any stable kernel yet. The other one is in the estimator code and > > > > > > goes back to at leat since we started working with git for the kernel. The > > > > > > latter I think qualifies for -stable. > > > > > > > > > > > > I've pushed the changes (8123b42..2e45552) based on davem's net tree here > > > > > > > > > > > > git://git.stealer.net/linux-2.6.git stealer/ipvs/for-davem > > > > > > > > > > I've included the register_ip_vs_protocol() annotation. Changes are now > > > > > 8123b42..7ead17b. Diffstat has changed slightly, but is probably not worth > > > > > posting again. > > > > > > > > Hi Sven, > > > > > > > > all these changes seem fine to me. > > > > > > > > Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > > > > With regards to ip_vs_zero_stats(), it uses > > > > > > > > memset(stats, 0, (char *)&stats->lock - (char *)stats); > > > > > > > > to clear stats and then calls ip_vs_zero_estimator(), which uses > > > > > > > > est->last_conns = 0; > > > > est->last_inpkts = 0; > > > > ... > > > > > > > > to clear stats->est. > > > > > > > > I wonder if it would be cleaner to either clear > > > > stats->... directly in ip_vs_zero_stats(), or use > > > > memset in ip_vs_zero_estimator()? > > > > > > Yeah, I wondered about the same. memset is probably simpler, but direct > > > assignment makes it more obvious what is changed. Thinking about it, I'd > > > prefer direct assignment, when not setting a complete structure to zero > > > and there are not more than a handful lines needed to do it with direct > > > assignment. But I'm fine with either way here. If we prefer the memset > > > way, we should add a comment to both structures, saying that nobody should > > > add anything non-statistic before the member we use to get the size. > > > > To be honest I prefer direct assignment too. I think it is less fragile > > as the structures can be re-ordered without effecting how clear works. > > I'll post a (trivial) patch shortly. > > > > > Also the estimator and statistics structures can be optimized to avoid > > > some padding. I'll include these changes and resend. > > > > Great. > > Sadly the layout of the stats structure is shared with user space, so this > can't be changed easily without breaking ABI. un-Great :-( -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe lvs-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
