At 06:43 PM 4/28/2003, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
>Em Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 02:10:11PM -0700, Max Krasnyansky escreveu:
>> Hi Arnaldo,
>>
>> Hmm, no comments on my last email
>> (http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-netdev&m=105123134301565&w=2)
>> Are you trying to ignore me too ? ;-)
>
>Nope, I was working on the higher layer first, to then come to the net families
>that are already modular and have per-protocol modules, and I'm starting to
>look
>into the only, AFAIK, network family that has this in place: bluetooth :-)
>
>Having said that I haven't fully studied this I see two scenarios
>(brainstorming):
>
>1. the net family that wants per protocol "sub" modules "duplicates" the
>infrastructure having PROTO_sk_alloc and PROTO_destruct (the sk_free
>sk->destruct hook call), PROTO_sk_alloc uses its net_families equivalent
>(bt_proto in bluetooth) to find the owner (the "sub" module, i.e. per protocol
>module) and PROTO_net_family_gets it, then calls sk_alloc proper, and when the
>last reference to the sock is released the sk->destruct is called
>(PROTO_destruct) does the PROTO_net_family_put. Ditto for the socket case,
>where PROTO_create, before calling the ->create of the "sub" module does the
>PROTO_net_family_get, and at release time its PROTO_release does the same thing
>that sock_release does. Something like this may well need extra info to be kept
>at the private area of the proto family in struct sock protinfo or private slab
>cache.
That can probably be done. But what happened to "protocol writers don't have to
worry about this issues" ideas though ;-) ?
The other thing that I don't like is that to create one socket we'd have to
call whole bunch of functions to take care of the module refcounting.
So I want to bring these questions again:
- Why do we have to bump module refcount for 'struct sock' with _default_
callbacks ?
My answer is that we don't have to. I'd even say that we shouldn't. Module is
not
referenced from struct sock in that case.
- Why are we not allowing net_family unregistration until all family sockets
are gone ?
From what I see it's only because current code does
'module_put(net_families[family]->owner)'.
I'm saying that we don't care whether net_family is registered or not if we
know who owns
the socket (i.e. sock->owner).
So my point is yes we can make families to implement their own infrastructure
for module
refcounting. But the solution is going to be more complicated than just having
sock->owner
and sk->owner fields and allowing for ownership transfers.
>That is, we have a higher layer for net families, with locking for the whole
>family done like it is on the tree now and a lower layer at the specific
>net family, both having the same behaviour at its layers.
>
>This option seems to be easy to implement with the current bluetooth
>infrastructure (i.e. it has a net_families equivalent, it does the switching at
>bt_create time, etc).
Well, we already use sk->destruct call back in Bluetooth protocols (each proto
has its
own call back that does different things). I think we should not use existing
sk call
backs for module refcounting.
Max
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