[ofa-general] Re: [PATCH] RDMA/nes: Improved use of pbls

Roland Dreier rdreier at cisco.com
Wed Jan 21 16:51:33 PST 2009


 > Also, fixed two places where the software pbl counts were changed
 > before the hardware was updated.  This bug allowed another thread
 > to overallocate the hardware resources.

This patch is big enough that I think it needs to be deferred to 2.6.30
given where 2.6.29 is in the release cycle.  However if this problem
causes problems in practice maybe we should split it out and get it into
2.6.29?

 - R.



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