[openib-general] Re: [PATCH 4/6 v2] IB: address translation to map IP toIB addresses (GIDs)
Sean Hefty
mshefty at ichips.intel.com
Tue Mar 21 13:08:35 PST 2006
Roland Dreier wrote:
> > +struct workqueue_struct *rdma_wq;
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(rdma_wq);
>
> Sean, I don't think I saw an answer when I asked you this before. Why
> is ib_addr exporting a workqueue? Is there some sort of ordering
> constraint that is forcing other modules to go through the same
> workqueue for things?
>
> This seems like a very fragile internal thing to be exposing, and I'm
> wondering if there's a better way to handle it.
I responded in a different thread, but here's what I wrote:
"This is simply an attempt to reduce/combine work queues used by the Infiniband
code. This keeps the threading a little simpler in the rdma_cm, since all
callbacks are invoked using the same work queue. (I'm also using this with the
local SA/multicast code, but that's not ready for merging.)"
There's no specific ordering constraint that's required. We're just ending up
with several Infiniband modules creating their own work queues (ib_mad, ib_cm,
ib_addr, rdma_cm, plus a couple more in modules under development), and this is
an attempt to reduce that. If having separate work queues would work better,
there shouldn't be anything that prevents this.
- Sean
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