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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Cc: Tomas Winkler <tomasw@gmail.com>,
	Luis Rodriguez <Luis.Rodriguez@Atheros.com>,
	"linville@tuxdriver.com" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	"linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] mac80211: re-enable aggregation
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 01:05:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1221692757.7412.22.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080917230357.GA7410@tesla>

On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 16:03 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:

> > What I need to next is to add is rtnl_lock
> > qdisc_root_lock requires this. This root lock is held during requeuing
> > which can be triggered by removal or addition of an aggregation queue.
> 
> I saw that, but rtnl_lock() is mutex basd so no good. Hence we need
> something that works around this.

As I outlined earlier I'm pretty much convinced you need to go to the
workqueue anyway. Use schedule_work though, not the mac80211 workqueue,
you can't take the rtnl on the mac80211 wq.

johannes


  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-17 23:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-16  3:17 [PATCH v2] mac80211: re-enable aggregation Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-09-16  3:30 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-09-16  6:37 ` Johannes Berg
2008-09-17 20:57   ` Tomas Winkler
2008-09-17 22:45     ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-09-17 22:57       ` Tomas Winkler
2008-09-17 23:03         ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-09-17 23:05           ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2008-09-17 23:20             ` Tomas Winkler
2008-09-17 23:45               ` Tomas Winkler
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-10-21  7:14 [PATCH v2] mac80211: Re-enable aggregation Sujith
2008-10-21  7:24 ` Johannes Berg

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