[ofa-general] ***SPAM*** Re: [ewg] Re: Continue of "defer skb_orphan() until irqs enabled"

[Olga Shern (Voltaire)]

Hi Eli,

We also want to run regression tests with this patch.
Please let me know when OFED daily build will include it.

Thanks
Olga

On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 2:39 PM, Eli Cohen <eli at dev.mellanox.co.il> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 01:19:00PM -0700, Roland Dreier wrote:
>> How about this?  Instead of trying to rely on some complicated and
>> fragile reasoning about when some race might occur, let's just do what
>> we want to do anyway and get rid of LLTX.  We change from priv->tx_lock
>> (taken with IRQ disabling) to netif_tx_lock (taken on with
>> BH-disabling).  And then we can keep the skb_orphan in the place it is,
>> since our xmit routine runs with IRQs enabled.
>>
>
> We'll integrate this into ofed 1.4 and monitor this through our
> regression system.
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