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From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
To: "Zach Brown" <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@mellanox.co.il>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@osdl.org>, "Ingo Molnar" <mingo@elte.hu>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, openib-general@openib.org,
	"Arjan van de Ven" <arjan@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [openib-general] [PATCH] mthca: initialize send and receive queue locks separately
Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2006 13:39:34 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <adairmd9kah.fsf@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44AA9999.3060308@oracle.com> (Zach Brown's message of "Tue, 04 Jul 2006 09:38:49 -0700")

    Zach> Also, while looking at this I saw that the locks are being
    Zach> re-initialized from mthca_modify_qp().  Is that just a
    Zach> side-effect of relying on mthca_wq_init() to reset the
    Zach> non-lock members?  If you're concerned about
    Zach> microoptimization it seems like this could be avoided.

I think that is actually a very minor bug you've found.  If someone
were posting a work request at the same time as they transitioned a QP
to reset (which is a legitimate if not sensible thing to do), then the
spinlock could get reinitialized while it was held.  Which would be
bad.  So I think I like your original patch the best.

 - R.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-07-04 20:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-03 22:50 [PATCH] mthca: initialize send and receive queue locks separately Zach Brown
2006-07-04  7:03 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2006-07-04  8:56   ` Ingo Molnar
2006-07-04  9:42     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2006-07-04 11:56       ` Ingo Molnar
2006-07-04 12:52         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2006-07-26  6:26         ` [PATCH] lockdep: don't pull in includes when lockdep disabled Michael S. Tsirkin
2006-07-26  6:33           ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-07-26  6:43             ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2006-07-26  7:13             ` Alexey Dobriyan
2006-07-04 16:38   ` [openib-general] [PATCH] mthca: initialize send and receive queue locks separately Zach Brown
2006-07-04 16:52     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2006-07-04 20:39     ` Roland Dreier [this message]
2006-07-05  3:07       ` Michael S. Tsirkin

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