Linux IEEE 802.15.4 and 6LoWPAN development
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From: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
To: Stefan Schmidt <stefan@osg.samsung.com>,
	Alexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com>,
	linux-wpan@vger.kernel.org
Cc: kernel@pengutronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH bluetooth-next 4/4] mac802154: use atomic ops for sequence incrementation
Date: Fri, 22 May 2015 12:34:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <555F062B.3010107@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <555F0560.8060805@osg.samsung.com>

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On 05/22/2015 12:30 PM, Stefan Schmidt wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> On 22/05/15 10:59, Marc Kleine-Budde wrote:
>> On 05/22/2015 10:57 AM, Alexander Aring wrote:
>>> This patch will use atomic operations for sequence number incrementation
>>> while MAC header generation. Upper layers like af_802154 or 6LoWPAN
>>> could call this function in a parallel context while generating 802.15.4
>>> MAC header before queuing into wpan interfaces transmit queue.
>> what about swapping patch 3 and 4?
> 
> To avoid having problems during a git bisect later one? E.g. having the 
> lock removed but no atomic in place?

Yes, that's what I was thinking about. I don't know the code to tell if
this is an issue here.

Marc

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-22 10:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-22  8:57 [PATCH bluetooth-next 0/4] mac802154: remove pib/mib locks and locking fixes Alexander Aring
2015-05-22  8:57 ` [PATCH bluetooth-next 1/4] mac802154: fix hold rtnl while ioctl Alexander Aring
2015-05-22 12:15   ` Stefan Schmidt
2015-05-22  8:57 ` [PATCH bluetooth-next 2/4] mac802154: remove pib lock Alexander Aring
2015-05-22 12:19   ` Stefan Schmidt
2015-05-22 12:41     ` Alexander Aring
2015-05-22 12:48       ` Stefan Schmidt
2015-05-22  8:57 ` [PATCH bluetooth-next 3/4] mac802154: remove mib lock Alexander Aring
2015-05-22 12:25   ` Stefan Schmidt
2015-05-22  8:57 ` [PATCH bluetooth-next 4/4] mac802154: use atomic ops for sequence incrementation Alexander Aring
2015-05-22  8:59   ` Marc Kleine-Budde
2015-05-22 10:30     ` Stefan Schmidt
2015-05-22 10:34       ` Marc Kleine-Budde [this message]
2015-05-22 10:40         ` Stefan Schmidt
2015-05-22 12:12         ` Alexander Aring
2015-05-22 12:33           ` Stefan Schmidt
2015-05-22 12:27   ` Stefan Schmidt

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