[ofa-general] Re: [PATCH V2 - libibverbs] Added reference count to completion event channels

Michael S. Tsirkin mst at dev.mellanox.co.il
Wed Mar 21 22:50:34 PDT 2007


> Quoting Roland Dreier <rdreier at cisco.com>:
> Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 - libibverbs] Added reference count to completion event channels
> 
>  > I believe that we can avoid problems only if we will have a lock in
>  > the ibv_context that handles the completion channels.
> 
> Yes, that is the idea I had too.
> 
>  > If you think that adding a lock to the ibv_context is good enough i
>  > will send you a patch that implements this solution.
> 
> Please do.  I don't see anything objectionable to that solution.

Since this changes structure size, will this break the ABI wrt
libibverbs 1.0 compatibility?


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MST



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