[ofa-general] IPoIB kernel Oops -- race condition

Moni Shoua monis at Voltaire.COM
Mon Jun 29 00:27:25 PDT 2009


Jack Morgenstein wrote:
> On Sunday 28 June 2009 19:09, Moni Shoua wrote:
>> maybe synchronizing the race with a completion var (like IPoIB does in struct ipoib_path) will help. I think this will work. I can send a patch if you want unless you see this idea doesn't work for this case.
>>
>> MoniS
> I just looked at the ipoib_path struct.  I assume that you mean the "valid" field.  I do not think this will work here.
> We need to wait when doing ifconfig ib0 down before testing the busy flag:
I actually meant the complete field. 
I'll think again and try to come up with a suggestion with a patch.




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