[openib-general] Re: RFC: ib_cache_event problems

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

Quoting r. Roland Dreier <rdreier at cisco.com>:
> Subject: Re: RFC: ib_cache_event problems
> 
>     Michael> Hmm. Thinking about it some more - how about generating
>     Michael> the events from a mad thread in core rather than from
>     Michael> povider?  Then this would be thread context so cache
>     Michael> could simply perform updates inline in event handler.
> 
> You have the same problem with allocating storage in atomic context
> for an arbitrary-length queue of events.

No, on mad thread we can allocate with GFP_KERNEL I think.

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