From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: Mitchell Blank Jr <mitch@sfgoth.com>
Cc: chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil, romieu@fr.zoreil.com, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH][ATM]: [clip] fix race between modifying entry->vccs and clip_start_xmit()
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 15:24:08 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030915152408.2b9bae8a.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030915223048.GD92642@gaz.sfgoth.com>
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 15:30:48 -0700
Mitchell Blank Jr <mitch@sfgoth.com> wrote:
> David S. Miller wrote:
> > Are you really totally sure that no interrupt path can release
> > a VCC?
>
> That should be the case at least for any VCC on a real interface[*].
> Some ATM cards have ->close() methods that can take a while so connection
> teardown has to happen with some sort of sleepable context. So if there
> are cases where an interrupt causes the VCC to die they would need to be
> fixed anyways.
Ok, I'm convinced. :)
I'll apply Chas's patch then, thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-15 22:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-15 19:11 [PATCH][ATM]: [clip] fix race between modifying entry->vccs and clip_start_xmit() chas williams
2003-09-15 20:59 ` Francois Romieu
2003-09-15 21:59 ` chas williams
2003-09-15 22:02 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-15 22:30 ` Mitchell Blank Jr
2003-09-15 22:24 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2003-09-16 10:59 ` chas williams
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