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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net>
Cc: fubar@us.ibm.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] bonding: eliminate RTNL assertion spew
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 18:13:55 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45A421B3.4020301@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070109225900.GA11755@gospo.rdu.redhat.com>

Andy Gospodarek wrote:
> -void bond_alb_handle_active_change(struct bonding *bond, struct slave *new_slave)
> +void bond_alb_handle_active_change(struct bonding *bond, struct slave *new_slave, int rtnl_locked)
>  {
>  	struct slave *swap_slave;
>  	int i;

Although this is not a direct NAK (haven't read the full patch yet), 
conditional locking behavior like this is /very/ fragile, and in Linux 
is generally discouraged.  Vendor drivers in particular have a history 
of constantly getting this wrong, and it makes locking more difficult to 
review.

	Jeff



  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-01-09 23:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-09 22:59 [PATCH 1/1] bonding: eliminate RTNL assertion spew Andy Gospodarek
2007-01-09 23:09 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-01-10 19:33   ` Andy Gospodarek
2007-01-10 19:53     ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-08-15  3:14     ` Mike Snitzer
2007-08-15  3:27       ` Andy Gospodarek
2007-08-15 18:36         ` Mike Snitzer
2007-08-15 19:15           ` Jay Vosburgh
2007-01-09 23:13 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2007-01-09 23:34   ` Andy Gospodarek

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