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From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@mellanox.co.il>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, openib-general@openib.org
Subject: Re: [openib-general] Re: [git patch review 1/4] IPoIB: Don't start send-only joins while multicast thread is stopped
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 08:37:48 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <adazmkw3543.fsf@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060212075037.GA11550@mellanox.co.il> (Michael S. Tsirkin's message of "Sun, 12 Feb 2006 09:50:37 +0200")

    Michael> Basically, its as Andrew said: the lock around clear_bit
    Michael> is there to ensure that ipoib_mcast_send isnt running
    Michael> already when we stop the thread.  Thats why test_bit has
    Michael> to be inside the lock, too.

Makes sense I guess.  If I'm understanding correctly, the lock isn't
really there to serialize the bit ops, but rather to make sure
ipoib_mcast_send() won't do anything after we clear the bit.

Does that mean that there's no reason to take the lock around the set_bit()?

 - R.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-02-12 16:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-11 20:22 [git patch review 1/4] IPoIB: Don't start send-only joins while multicast thread is stopped Roland Dreier
2006-02-11 20:22 ` [git patch review 2/4] IPoIB: Fix another send-only join race Roland Dreier
2006-02-11 20:22   ` [git patch review 3/4] IB/mthca: Don't print debugging info until we have all values Roland Dreier
2006-02-11 20:22     ` [git patch review 4/4] IPoIB: Yet another fix for send-only joins Roland Dreier
2006-02-11 22:02 ` [git patch review 1/4] IPoIB: Don't start send-only joins while multicast thread is stopped Andrew Morton
2006-02-12  2:03   ` Roland Dreier
2006-02-12  7:50     ` [openib-general] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2006-02-12  8:13       ` Kyle Moffett
2006-02-12  8:19         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2006-02-12 16:37       ` Roland Dreier [this message]
2006-02-12 16:56         ` [openib-general] " Michael S. Tsirkin

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