[openib-general] race in mthca_cq.c?
Michael S. Tsirkin
mst at mellanox.co.il
Sat Jun 10 23:38:42 PDT 2006
Quoting r. Roland Dreier <rdreier at cisco.com>:
> Michael> But there might be more EQEs for this CQN outstanding in
> Michael> the EQ which we have not seen yet.
>
> Now that you mention it, that could be a real problem I guess.
> synchronize_irq() isn't enough because the interrupt handler might not
> have even started yet.
Only in MSI configurations though: with regular interrupts command interface
shares IRQ with completions so the EQ will be emptied before interrupt handler
is done.
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MST
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