[ofa-general] [PATCH v2] ipiob: fix rtnl deadlock

Roland Dreier rdreier at cisco.com
Fri Aug 8 14:13:36 PDT 2008


 > How about putting the mtu stuff in another task, that is scheduled on
 > another workqueue,
 > such as the global workqueue? We can use the data field of the work to
 > syncronize with device cleanup.

I don't think moving to a different workqueue helps, does it?  Because
we just have to flush *that* workqueue somewhere too.

 - R.



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