[openib-general] [RFC] [PATCH 2/7] ib_multicast 2.6.20: add ib_multicast module to track join requests from the same port

Michael S. Tsirkin mst at mellanox.co.il
Wed Oct 11 23:02:53 PDT 2006


Quoting r. Sean Hefty <mshefty at ichips.intel.com>:
> Subject: Re: [openib-general] [RFC] [PATCH 2/7] ib_multicast 2.6.20: add ib_multicast module to track join requests from the same port
> 
> Sean Hefty wrote:
> >>>+				       int (*callback)(int status,
> >>>+						       struct ib_multicast
> >>>+							      *multicast),
> >>>+				       void *context);
> >>>+
> >>
> >>Is this re-introducing module unload races we had with sa all over again?
> > 
> > 
> > The call returns a structure that must be freed.  If the structure is freed by
> > returning a non-zero call to the callback, then we have the same problem that
> > ib_cm and rdma_cm have.

Hmm, sorry, I forgot.
Could you restate what the ib_cm/rdma_cm problem is, please?
Shouldn't we solve that, too?

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MST




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