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

Roland Dreier rdreier at cisco.com
Mon Apr 3 15:04:23 PDT 2006


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

I don't have a strong feeling either way.  It doesn't fix anything,
but on the other hand it's a small low-risk cleanup.

 - R.



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