[ewg] Re: [ofa-general] [PATCH] ib_ipoib: fix race detaching from mcast group before attaching
Roland Dreier
rdreier at cisco.com
Mon Mar 19 14:58:37 PDT 2007
> The attach QP only occurs in the context of the multicast callback thread.
> ib_sa_free_multicast() blocks until the callback returns, which ensures that the
> detach check/call (which is now done after ib_sa_free_multicast) cannot race
> with the attach call.
OK, makes sense. Do we have confirmation that this fixes the original
problem? If so I'll queue this up...
- R.
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