[openib-general] [PATCH] ipoib: device removal races

Roland Dreier rolandd at cisco.com
Mon Aug 29 09:38:25 PDT 2005


    Michael> It seems that most of the complexity comes from the way
    Michael> core uses work queues to pass events to upper layers.
    Michael> And I wander: couldnt core be simplified by passing up
    Michael> events directly in the interrupt context?

I'm confused -- which core and which events are you talking about?
The ib_core module just passes on asynchronous events directly from
the low-level driver, without using work queues.

 - R.



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