[ofa-general] [PATCH v2] ipiob: fix rtnl deadlock
Roland Dreier
rdreier at cisco.com
Mon Aug 11 13:55:04 PDT 2008
> > I don't think moving to a different workqueue helps, does it? Because
> > we just have to flush *that* workqueue somewhere too.
> Yes, but it won't have to be from ipoib_stop, it can be from a place
> where rtnl_lock is not held.
That's kind of the direction I've been looking, except I don't think we
need to invent a new workqueue to do this. It seems that ipoib_stop is
the wrong place to flush our workqueue in general.
- R.
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