[ofa-general] RE: [PATCH/RFC] IB/mad: Fix lock-lock-timer deadlock in RMPP code

Sean Hefty sean.hefty at intel.com
Tue Sep 22 15:27:23 PDT 2009


>OK so how about something like this?  Just hold the lock to mark the
>items on the list as being canceled, and then actually cancel the
>delayed work without the lock.  I think this doesn't leave any races or
>holes where the delayed work can mess up the cancel.

This looks good to me.  Thanks for looking at this.

Reviewed-by: Sean Hefty <sean.hefty at intel.com>




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