[ofa-general] cm.c and irqsave (was Re: [PATCH] ib/cm: fix stale connection detection)
Sean Hefty
mshefty at ichips.intel.com
Tue May 22 09:38:18 PDT 2007
> On an unrelated note, it looks like cm.c would benefit from an irqsave
> diet: it seems to perform work almost exclusively from thread
> context, so just spin_lock_irq is sure to be enough.
I don't think everything is done at thread context - that depends on the
ULP, but it could definitely replace irqsave with just irq in any of the
message processing code.
- Sean
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