On Fri, 14 May 2021 16:57:29 -0700 Cong Wang wrote:
On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 4:39 PM Jakub Kicinski kuba@kernel.org wrote:
On Fri, 14 May 2021 16:36:16 -0700 Cong Wang wrote:
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We have test_and_clear_bit() which is atomic, test_bit()+clear_bit() is not.
It doesn't have to be atomic, right? I asked to split the test because test_and_clear is a locked op on x86, test by itself is not.
It depends on whether you expect the code under the true condition to run once or multiple times, something like:
if (test_bit()) { clear_bit(); // this code may run multiple times }
With the atomic test_and_clear_bit(), it only runs once:
if (test_and_clear_bit()) { // this code runs once }
This is why __netif_schedule() uses test_and_set_bit() instead of test_bit()+set_bit().
Thanks, makes sense, so hopefully the MISSED-was-set case is not common and we can depend on __netif_schedule() to DTRT, avoiding the atomic op in the common case.