[openib-general] Re: updated InfiniBand 2.6.17 merge plans

Michael S. Tsirkin mst at mellanox.co.il
Mon Apr 3 15:02:22 PDT 2006


Quoting r. Roland Dreier <rdreier at cisco.com>:
> Subject: Re: updated InfiniBand 2.6.17 merge plans
> 
>     Michael> These are just the features, right? There's as the usual
>     Michael> bugfixes which aren't listed here.
> 
> Yes, of course.  We can always merge bugfixes.  Although I don't know
> of any pending bugfixes that are not at least in my for-2.6.17 branch...

One thing I wanted to do was kill the global mutexes in
ipoib, replacing all uses with priv->lock: we never do anything blocking
there. Is this 2.6.17 material?

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Michael S. Tsirkin
Staff Engineer, Mellanox Technologies



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