From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, jeff@garzik.org, gospo@redhat.com,
david.graham@intel.com
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH] Remove mutex_trylock and associated WARN on failure.
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 23:46:19 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090214.234619.95630749.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090212095304.6369.47737.stgit@lost.foo-projects.org>
From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 01:53:10 -0800
> Single-thread access must be ensured for ICH8 NVM and PHY operations.
> This synchronization is provided by the nvm_mutex. To assist in
> understanding the contexts from which this code could be reached,
> a WARN was output if the mutex was not going to be immediately
> acquirable (if !mutex_trylock()). The code has now been optimized,
> and we have verified that the few remaining mutex contentions are
> reasonable and non-blocking, and it is time to remove the
> mutex_trylock() and WARN messages.
>
> Signed-off-by: dave graham <david.graham@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Applied.
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2009-02-12 9:53 [net-next PATCH] Remove mutex_trylock and associated WARN on failure Jeff Kirsher
2009-02-15 7:46 ` David Miller [this message]
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