[ofa-general] Re: [PATCH/RFC] IB/mad: Fix lock-lock-timer deadlock in RMPP code

Roland Dreier rdreier at cisco.com
Wed Sep 9 14:34:41 PDT 2009


 > The locking is needed to protect against items being removed from rmpp_list in
 > recv_timeout_handler() and recv_cleanup_handler().  No new items should be added
 > to the rmpp_list when ib_cancel_rmpp_recvs() is running (or there's a separate
 > bug).

Ah, I see.

That's trickier I guess... hmm...

 - R.



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