[ofa-general] Re: [RFC] [PATCH v4] IB/ipoib: Add bonding support to IPoIB

Michael S. Tsirkin mst at dev.mellanox.co.il
Wed Mar 28 05:15:19 PDT 2007


> Quoting Moni Shoua <monisonlists at gmail.com>:
> Subject: [RFC] [PATCH v4] IB/ipoib: Add bonding support to IPoIB
> 
> Hi,
> 
> The previous version of the patch changed ipoib_neigh_destructor to take 
> the pointer to neigh outside the lock. This might be a risk so I wrote a 
> new version of this patch so the change would affect only when bonding is used.
> Please see below...

This looks pretty safe for OFED 1.2 insofar as this won't affect
someone not using bonding.

Long term, we still need to find a proper solution for whenever
this bonding related code goes GA/upstream.

-- 
MST



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