From: Chandra Gorentla <csgorentla@gmail.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: dan.carpenter@oracle.com, johnny.kim@atmel.com,
rachel.kim@atmel.com, dean.lee@atmel.com, chris.park@atmel.com,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] drivers: staging: wilc1000: Replace message queue with standard Linux lists
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 17:59:22 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150930122922.GA4704@gcs-HP-Notebook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150929004402.GB7811@kroah.com>
On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 02:44:02AM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 11:43:55PM +0530, Chandra S Gorentla wrote:
> > - The message queue is replaced with standard Linux linked list
> > - kmem_cache is used for list members
>
> Why?
The list entires are of fixed type and repeatedly allocated and deallocated
for messages.
>
> > - A check for return value of receive method is added
> > - GFP_ATOMIC is changed to GFP_KERNEL
>
> Why? Are you sure that is safe?
The allocations are moved out of 'spin_lock_irqsave' and
'spin_unlock_irqrestore'. Hence they are safe.
>
> > - A few other related minor changes
>
> Be specific please.
OK. I will try to send seperate patches.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
Thank you,
chandra
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-30 12:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-28 18:13 [PATCH 1/2] drivers: staging: wilc1000: Replace message queue with standard Linux lists Chandra S Gorentla
2015-09-28 18:13 ` [PATCH 2/2] drivers: staging: wilc1000: wilc_msgqueue.c: Remove code that no effect Chandra S Gorentla
2015-09-28 18:13 ` [PATCH 2/2] drivers: staging: wilc1000: wilc_msgqueue.c: Remove ineffective code Chandra S Gorentla
2015-09-28 18:37 ` [PATCH 2/2] drivers: staging: wilc1000: wilc_msgqueue.c: Remove code that no effect Chandra Gorentla
2015-09-29 0:43 ` Greg KH
2015-09-29 0:44 ` [PATCH 1/2] drivers: staging: wilc1000: Replace message queue with standard Linux lists Greg KH
2015-09-30 12:29 ` Chandra Gorentla [this message]
2015-09-29 2:31 ` Dan Carpenter
2015-09-30 12:42 ` Chandra Gorentla
2015-09-30 13:22 ` Dan Carpenter
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