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From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
To: "Ertman, David M" <david.m.ertman@intel.com>
Cc: Saeed Mahameed <saeed@kernel.org>,
	"Nguyen, Anthony L" <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>,
	"davem@davemloft.net" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	"kuba@kernel.org" <kuba@kernel.org>,
	"pabeni@redhat.com" <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	"edumazet@google.com" <edumazet@google.com>,
	"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Saleem, Shiraz" <shiraz.saleem@intel.com>,
	"Ismail, Mustafa" <mustafa.ismail@intel.com>,
	"leonro@nvidia.com" <leonro@nvidia.com>,
	"linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org" <linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org>,
	"G, GurucharanX" <gurucharanx.g@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 2/4] ice: Correctly handle aux device when num channels change
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2022 19:53:58 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y5e/FjounudVaf4p@ziepe.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <MW5PR11MB5811C27393271A563A009821DDE29@MW5PR11MB5811.namprd11.prod.outlook.com>

On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 05:03:39PM +0000, Ertman, David M wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 09, 2022 at 11:28:28AM -0800, Saeed Mahameed wrote:
> > 
> > > IMO it's wrong to re-initialize a parallel subsystems due to an ethtool,
> > > ethtool is meant to control the netdev interface, not rdma.
> > 
> > We've gotten into locking trouble doing stuff like this before.
> > 
> > If you are holding any locks do not try to unplug/plug an aux device.
> > 
> > Jason
> 
> The unplug/plug is done outside the ethtool context.  No locks are being held.

That's a good, trick, so I'm skeptical *no* locks are held.

Jason

  reply	other threads:[~2022-12-12 23:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-12-07 21:10 [PATCH net 0/4][pull request] Intel Wired LAN Driver Updates 2022-12-07 (ice) Tony Nguyen
2022-12-07 21:10 ` [PATCH net 1/4] ice: Create a separate kthread to handle ptp extts work Tony Nguyen
2022-12-07 22:19   ` Saeed Mahameed
2022-12-07 23:22     ` Jacob Keller
2022-12-08  0:27   ` Richard Cochran
2022-12-09 17:07     ` Tony Nguyen
2022-12-07 21:10 ` [PATCH net 2/4] ice: Correctly handle aux device when num channels change Tony Nguyen
2022-12-07 22:25   ` Saeed Mahameed
2022-12-09 17:21     ` Ertman, David M
2022-12-09 19:28       ` Saeed Mahameed
2022-12-09 19:32         ` Jason Gunthorpe
2022-12-12 17:03           ` Ertman, David M
2022-12-12 23:53             ` Jason Gunthorpe [this message]
2022-12-16 19:08         ` [PATCH net 2/4] ice: git send-email --suppress-cc=all --to e1000-patches@eclists.intel.com Ertman, David M
2022-12-07 21:10 ` [PATCH net 3/4] ice: Fix deadlock on the rtnl_mutex Tony Nguyen
2022-12-07 21:10 ` [PATCH net 4/4] ice: Fix broken link in ice NAPI doc Tony Nguyen

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