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From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
To: "Bryan O'Sullivan" <bos@pathscale.com>
Cc: rolandd@cisco.com, gregkh@suse.de, akpm@osdl.org,
	davem@davemloft.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	openib-general@openib.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 9 of 20] ipath - char devices for diagnostics and lightweight subnet management
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 15:51:34 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <adaek1bdvnd.fsf@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1141948189.10693.48.camel@serpentine.pathscale.com> (Bryan O'Sullivan's message of "Thu, 09 Mar 2006 15:49:49 -0800")

    Bryan> Yep, this is a real race, albeit incredibly unlikely.  I
    Bryan> just turned ipath_sma_alive into an atomic_t, and wrapped
    Bryan> the open/close code in spinlocks.

How does making it an atomic_t help?  I think you're only going to be
using atomic_set() and atomic_read(), and atomic_t doesn't provide
anything in that case.

 - R.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-09 23:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <eac2ad3017b5f160d24c.1141922822@localhost.localdomain>
2006-03-09 23:20 ` [PATCH 9 of 20] ipath - char devices for diagnostics and lightweight subnet management Roland Dreier
2006-03-09 23:39   ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-03-09 23:47     ` Roland Dreier
2006-03-09 23:50       ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-03-09 23:52         ` Roland Dreier
2006-03-10 15:54     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2006-03-10 16:05       ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-03-09 23:24 ` Roland Dreier
2006-03-09 23:49   ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-03-09 23:51     ` Roland Dreier [this message]
2006-03-09 23:26 ` Roland Dreier
2006-03-09 23:52   ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-03-10  0:00     ` Roland Dreier
2006-03-10  0:04       ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-03-10  0:45     ` Greg KH
2006-03-10  0:48       ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-03-10  1:04         ` Greg KH
2006-03-10  4:41           ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-03-10  5:48             ` Greg KH
2006-03-10 13:40               ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-03-10  5:55             ` Roland Dreier
2006-03-10 13:43               ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-03-10 16:58                 ` Greg KH
2006-03-10 17:05                   ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-03-10 17:08                 ` Roland Dreier
2006-03-10 17:32                   ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-03-10 22:20                     ` Roland Dreier
2006-03-10  0:35 [PATCH 0 of 20] [RFC] ipath driver - another round for review Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-03-10  0:35 ` [PATCH 9 of 20] ipath - char devices for diagnostics and lightweight subnet management Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-03-10  0:45   ` Roland Dreier
2006-03-10  0:47     ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-03-10  0:52       ` Roland Dreier

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