[openib-general] Re: [KJ] [RFC] TODO file cleanups

Michael S. Tsirkin mst at mellanox.co.il
Tue Jan 18 10:16:40 PST 2005


Hello!
Quoting r. Roland Dreier (roland at topspin.com) "Re: [openib-general] Re: [KJ] [RFC] TODO file cleanups":
>     Michael> May I put in again my proposal to add a "reset cq" verb,
>     Michael> which will make it possible to just reset everything when
>     Michael> the interface is going down, without polling, arbitrary
>     Michael> timeouts and such.
> 
> I still don't understand how this resolves synchronization with
> processing that may be in progress on other CPUs, etc.

By the way, I was looking at using RCU to reduce locking, also for
thing like poll_cq. What do you say to that?

>     Michael> I can build up a patch ...
> 
> Perhaps that would be the best way to explain the idea.
> 
>  - R.

okay
mst



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