From: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
To: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
shemminger@vyatta.com, jarkao2@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netpoll: fix race on poll_list resulting in garbage entry
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:25:27 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081219012527.GA2669@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1229640015.2914.20.camel@hashbaz.i.decadent.org.uk>
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:40:15PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-12-18 at 14:52 -0500, Neil Horman wrote:
> [...]
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/sfc/efx.c b/drivers/net/sfc/efx.c
> > index 086629c..75273bb 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/sfc/efx.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/sfc/efx.c
> > @@ -226,11 +226,11 @@ static int efx_poll(struct napi_struct *napi, int budget)
> >
> > if (rx_packets < budget) {
> > /* There is no race here; although napi_disable() will
> > - * only wait for netif_rx_complete(), this isn't a problem
> > + * only wait for netif_rx_complete(this isn't a problem
> > * since efx_channel_processed() will have no effect if
> > * interrupts have already been disabled.
> > */
> [...]
>
> You'll want to exclude comments from your search-and-replace.
>
> Ben.
>
> --
> Ben Hutchings, Senior Software Engineer, Solarflare Communications
> Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job.
> They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked.
>
>
>
Dave, can you fix this up, or would you rather I repost the patch?
Neil
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-19 1:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-09 21:06 [PATCH] netpoll: fix race on poll_list resulting in garbage entry Neil Horman
2008-12-10 7:22 ` David Miller
2008-12-11 13:07 ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-12-11 14:29 ` Neil Horman
2008-12-11 17:01 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-12-11 18:15 ` Neil Horman
2008-12-12 0:03 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-12-12 12:18 ` Neil Horman
2008-12-16 23:55 ` David Miller
2008-12-17 21:16 ` Neil Horman
2008-12-17 21:31 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-12-17 23:44 ` Neil Horman
2008-12-18 1:13 ` Neil Horman
2008-12-18 3:29 ` David Miller
2008-12-18 14:47 ` Neil Horman
2008-12-18 19:52 ` Neil Horman
2008-12-18 22:40 ` Ben Hutchings
2008-12-18 23:30 ` Johannes Berg
2008-12-19 1:25 ` Neil Horman [this message]
2008-12-19 6:42 ` David Miller
2008-12-19 13:42 ` Neil Horman
2008-12-23 4:43 ` David Miller
2008-12-18 9:04 ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-12-12 7:07 ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-12-12 13:31 ` Neil Horman
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