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From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
To: Erez Shitrit <erezsh@dev.mellanox.co.il>
Cc: Aaron Knister <aaron.s.knister@nasa.gov>,
	RDMA mailing list <linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org, Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>,
	John Fleck <john.fleck@intel.com>,
	Feras Daoud <ferasda@mellanox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] avoid race condition between start_xmit and cm_rep_handler
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2018 10:28:00 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180820162800.GA25543@ziepe.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAk-MO97rinpQXhyy7VZA6HWNwm94UuWAFnLFOSb4mj1wW4fQw@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 09:36:53AM +0300, Erez Shitrit wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Did you check the option to hold the netif_tx_lock_xxx() in
> ipoib_cm_rep_handler function (over the line
> set_bit(IPOIB_FLAG_OPER_UP)) instead of in the send data path flow?

That does seem better, then the test_bit in the datapath could become
non-atomic too :)

Jason

  reply	other threads:[~2018-08-20 16:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-17 21:31 [PATCH v2] avoid race condition between start_xmit and cm_rep_handler Aaron Knister
2018-08-19 17:28 ` Leon Romanovsky
2018-08-20  4:38   ` Weiny, Ira
2018-08-20  4:34 ` Weiny, Ira
2018-08-20  6:36 ` Erez Shitrit
2018-08-20 16:28   ` Jason Gunthorpe [this message]
2018-08-20 17:40     ` Aaron Knister
2018-08-20 19:20       ` [non-nasa source] " Aaron Knister
2018-08-23 23:25         ` Aaron Knister
2018-08-24 12:34           ` Aaron Knister
2018-08-20 11:49 ` Estrin, Alex

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