[openib-general] possible oops when callingipoib_neigh_destructor while ipoib mod ule is down.
Roland Dreier
roland at topspin.com
Mon Nov 29 09:43:12 PST 2004
Fab> Maybe I'm clueless (quite likely), but why not just have each
Fab> neighbour structure take a reference on the module when it is
Fab> created? The destructor would release that reference. That
Fab> should solve races involved with cleaning up, as well as
Fab> ensuring that the module is still around for the destructor
Fab> to get invoked.
That's a possibility but then no IPoIB neighbour structures could ever
be garbage collected, which doesn't seem like a good idea.
- Roland
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