Re: Witness warning with SCTP

On Wednesday 10 January 2007 10:03, Randall Stewart wrote:
> Robert/All:
> 
> Ok, here is the deal... I have looked in a bit
> closer at this..
> 
> Here is what is happening...
> 
> When a cookie arrives, we get a "create lock" on
> the socket this prevents the user on the same
> socket from creating a assoc at the same exact time.

Can't you do a model like this:

	lock();
	if (need to create pcb) {
		unlock();
		create_pcb();  // can sleep w/o holding lock
		lock();
		if (someone else created the pcb)
			free(pcb_I_just_created);
	}
	unlock();

This is used in several places in the kernel to handle concurrent
object creation races.  Speaking of the sx(9) man page there are
two things to note:

1) There are already patches to make sx(9) locks just as efficient
   as mutexes in the common case (single atomic op), so that comment
   is likely irrelevant (and probably shouldn't have existed in the
   first place).

2) If you are already willing to sleep by calling hashinit() (which
   can sleep in malloc()), then blocking on a sx lock is already fine
   for the code where you are doing this.

-- 
John Baldwin