[openib-general] [PATCH] mthca: initialize send and receive queue locks separately

Roland Dreier rdreier at cisco.com
Tue Jul 4 13:39:34 PDT 2006


    Zach> Also, while looking at this I saw that the locks are being
    Zach> re-initialized from mthca_modify_qp().  Is that just a
    Zach> side-effect of relying on mthca_wq_init() to reset the
    Zach> non-lock members?  If you're concerned about
    Zach> microoptimization it seems like this could be avoided.

I think that is actually a very minor bug you've found.  If someone
were posting a work request at the same time as they transitioned a QP
to reset (which is a legitimate if not sensible thing to do), then the
spinlock could get reinitialized while it was held.  Which would be
bad.  So I think I like your original patch the best.

 - R.




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