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From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 08:04:24 -0700

> IPoIB can cope but it really seems like an unfortunate feature of
> these changes that we can't do something like what we have today,
> which imposes no overhead unless an event actually lands in the race
> window.

It is not a feature of these changes.

These races exist in the current code, it is a bug fix.