From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: vladz@broadcom.com
Cc: eilong@broadcom.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, eric.dumazet@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] bnx2x: Disable local BHes to prevent a dead-lock situation
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 11:09:06 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101124.110906.39159145.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1290606310.25676.7.camel@lb-tlvb-vladz>
From: "Vladislav Zolotarov" <vladz@broadcom.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 15:45:10 +0200
> From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
>
> According to Eric's suggestion:
> Disable local BHes to prevent a dead-lock situation between sch_direct_xmit()
> (Soft_IRQ context) and bnx2x_tx_int (called by bnx2x_run_loopback() - syscall
> context), as both are taking a netif_tx_lock().
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Vladislav Zolotarov <vladz@broadcom.com>
> Signed-off-by: Eilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com>
Applied.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-24 19:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-24 13:45 [PATCH net-next] bnx2x: Disable local BHes to prevent a dead-lock situation Vladislav Zolotarov
2010-11-24 14:04 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-11-24 14:18 ` Vladislav Zolotarov
2010-11-24 19:09 ` David Miller [this message]
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2010-11-24 13:41 Vladislav Zolotarov
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