Re: [PATCH net-next 0/5] rocker: revert back to support for nowait processes

[David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: sfeldma@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2015 21:35:45 -0700

> One of the items removed from the rocker driver in the Spring Cleanup patch
> series was the ability to mark processing in the driver as "no wait" for
> those contexts where we cannot sleep.  Turns out, we have "no wait"
> contexts where we want to program the device and we don't want to defer the
> processing to a process context.  So re-add the ROCKER_OP_FLAG_NOWAIT flag
> to mark such processes, and propagate flags to mem allocator and to the
> device cmd executor.  With NOWAIT, mem allocs are GFP_ATOMIC and device
> cmds are queued to the device, but the driver will not wait (sleep) for the
> response back from the device.
> 
> My bad for removing NOWAIT support in the first place; I thought we could
> swing non-sleep contexts to process context using a work queue, for
> example, but there is push-back to keep processing in original context.

Series applied, thanks Scott.