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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@holomorphy.com>
Cc: "Kamble, Nitin A" <nitin.a.kamble@intel.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Nakajima, Jun" <jun.nakajima@intel.com>,
	"Mallick, Asit K" <asit.k.mallick@intel.com>,
	"Saxena, Sunil" <sunil.saxena@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][2.5] IRQ distribution patch for 2.5.58
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 20:15:35 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030218041535.GQ29983@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.50.0302172244270.25630-100000@montezuma.mastecende.com>

On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 01:08:55PM -0800, Kamble, Nitin A wrote:
+		spin_lock(&desc->lock);
+		irq_balance_mask[selected_irq] = target_cpu_mask;
+		spin_unlock(&desc->lock);

On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> Wrong.

On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 10:52:35PM -0500, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
> The desc locking for irq_balance_mask looks very strange,  what made you 
> put it in?

I only quoted the patch. I've got enough going wrong with hackers
running wild and stuffing bitmasks, ASCII art, and possibly even JPEG's
into my RTE's without changing thelocking.


-- wli

      reply	other threads:[~2003-02-18  4:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-16 21:08 [PATCH][2.5] IRQ distribution patch for 2.5.58 Kamble, Nitin A
2003-02-17 18:16 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-02-17 18:49   ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-02-17 18:59     ` Dave Hansen
2003-02-18  3:52   ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-02-18  4:15     ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]

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