From: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net>
To: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net>,
Krzysztof Oledzki <olel@ans.pl>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] bonding: 3 fixes for 2.6.24
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:03:53 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080110210353.GI8728@gospo.usersys.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <25832.1199998246@death>
On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 12:50:46PM -0800, Jay Vosburgh wrote:
> Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> wrote:
>
> >On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 09:51:44AM -0500, Andy Gospodarek wrote:
> >>
> >> That wasn't the only purpose, Herbert. Making sure that calls to
> >> dev_set_mac_address were called from process context was important at
> >> the time of the coding as well since at least the tg3 driver took locks
> >> that could not be taken reliably in soft-irq context. Michael Chan
> >> fixed this here:
> >
> >Sure, but where do you call that function while holding the bond lock?
>
> If I recall correctly, the problem was that tg3, et al, did
> things that might sleep, and bonding was calling from a timer context,
> which couldn't sleep. It wasn't about the lock.
>
Exactly, I was just about to post the same.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-10 21:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-08 1:56 [PATCH 0/3] bonding: 3 fixes for 2.6.24 Jay Vosburgh
2008-01-08 1:56 ` [PATCH 1/3] bonding: fix locking in sysfs primary/active selection Jay Vosburgh
2008-01-08 1:56 ` [PATCH 2/3] bonding: fix ASSERT_RTNL that produces spurious warnings Jay Vosburgh
2008-01-08 1:57 ` [PATCH 3/3] bonding: fix locking during alb failover and slave removal Jay Vosburgh
2008-01-08 18:50 ` [PATCH 0/3] bonding: 3 fixes for 2.6.24 Krzysztof Oledzki
2008-01-08 19:17 ` Andy Gospodarek
2008-01-08 20:28 ` Jay Vosburgh
2008-01-09 6:08 ` Herbert Xu
2008-01-08 19:30 ` Jay Vosburgh
2008-01-09 6:35 ` Krzysztof Oledzki
2008-01-09 7:58 ` Jay Vosburgh
2008-01-09 9:36 ` Krzysztof Oledzki
2008-01-09 15:27 ` Andy Gospodarek
2008-01-09 17:54 ` Jay Vosburgh
2008-01-09 20:17 ` Andy Gospodarek
2008-01-09 22:05 ` Herbert Xu
2008-01-09 23:19 ` Jay Vosburgh
2008-01-10 0:58 ` Herbert Xu
2008-01-10 14:51 ` Andy Gospodarek
2008-01-10 20:36 ` Herbert Xu
2008-01-10 20:50 ` Jay Vosburgh
2008-01-10 21:03 ` Andy Gospodarek [this message]
2008-01-10 21:05 ` Herbert Xu
2008-01-11 1:06 ` Jay Vosburgh
2008-01-11 4:55 ` Herbert Xu
2008-01-10 20:45 ` Jay Vosburgh
2008-01-12 10:53 ` Krzysztof Oledzki
2008-01-12 17:56 ` Jay Vosburgh
2008-01-13 0:19 ` Herbert Xu
2008-01-14 22:15 ` Krzysztof Oledzki
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