[openib-general] hotplug support in mthca
Michael S. Tsirkin
mst at mellanox.co.il
Tue Aug 1 07:22:42 PDT 2006
Quoting r. Roland Dreier <rdreier at cisco.com>:
> Subject: Re: hotplug support in mthca
>
> Michael> Roland, what happends today if an mthca device is removed
> Michael> while a userspace applcation still keeps a reference to
> Michael> it?
>
> Something bad.
How about fixing it by blocking remove_one in uverbs until all contexts
are closed and device refcount drops to 0?
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MST
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