[openib-general] hotplug support in mthca

Roland Dreier rdreier at cisco.com
Tue Aug 1 16:39:33 PDT 2006


    Michael> How about fixing it by blocking remove_one in uverbs
    Michael> until all contexts are closed and device refcount drops
    Michael> to 0?

That seems kind of horrible, because there's no guarantee that all the
contexts will ever be freed.

I think the real answer is to revoke all the contexts that userspace
has.  But that doesn't seem trivial to do, which is why I haven't
implemented it yet.

 - R.




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