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

[Yosef Etigin]

On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 12:13 AM, Roland Dreier <rdreier at cisco.com> wrote:
>  > 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.

Yes, but it won't have to be from ipoib_stop, it can be from a place
where rtnl_lock is not held.

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