From: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
To: Shawn Bohrer <shawn.bohrer@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Ketterhagen <tomk@rgmadvisors.com>,
netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>, Amir Vadai <amirv@mellanox.com>,
Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com>,
Hadar Hen Zion <hadarh@mellanox.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Shawn Bohrer <sbohrer@rgmadvisors.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] mlx4_en: Add PTP hardware clock
Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2013 18:02:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131225170258.GA5735@netboy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKBbMu33zXkG4+S1kP6zB+4iKMNNoy=XVBtoqZZEkqurRsgvQw@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Dec 25, 2013 at 08:11:00AM -0600, Shawn Bohrer wrote:
>
> The read/write lock appears to meet these needs but also appears to be
> frowned upon and RCU seems to be preferred. I'm a bit ignorant when it
> comes to RCU, but can it be used in this case?
No, don't use RCU. It would not make sense here. Just use
reader/writer locks.
Thanks,
Richard
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-12-25 17:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-17 20:32 [PATCH net-next 0/2] mlx4_en: Add PTP support Shawn Bohrer
2013-12-17 20:32 ` [PATCH net-next 1/2] mlx4_en: Add PTP hardware clock Shawn Bohrer
2013-12-17 21:04 ` Or Gerlitz
2013-12-17 21:46 ` Shawn Bohrer
2013-12-18 7:59 ` Or Gerlitz
2013-12-18 15:03 ` Shawn Bohrer
2013-12-22 13:13 ` Hadar Hen Zion
2013-12-23 16:29 ` Shawn Bohrer
2013-12-23 16:59 ` Shawn Bohrer
2013-12-24 15:38 ` Hadar Hen Zion
2013-12-25 11:49 ` Richard Cochran
2013-12-23 18:48 ` Richard Cochran
2013-12-24 13:58 ` Hadar Hen Zion
2013-12-25 11:53 ` Richard Cochran
[not found] ` <CAKBbMu33zXkG4+S1kP6zB+4iKMNNoy=XVBtoqZZEkqurRsgvQw@mail.gmail.com>
2013-12-25 17:02 ` Richard Cochran [this message]
2013-12-26 8:26 ` Hadar Hen Zion
2013-12-26 8:33 ` Hadar Hen Zion
2013-12-26 9:17 ` Richard Cochran
2013-12-26 14:41 ` Hadar Hen-Zion
2013-12-26 14:49 ` Richard Cochran
2013-12-17 20:32 ` [PATCH net-next 2/2] mlx4_en: Only cycle port if HW timestamp config changes Shawn Bohrer
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