[ofw] patch: Fix a race in the cl_timer code	that	caused	deadlocks	in	opensm
    Hefty, Sean 
    sean.hefty at intel.com
       
    Wed Jun 23 12:00:21 PDT 2010
    
    
  
> Yes, we need to have a clear expectation of how the timer behaves.  It
> seems that the current issue is rooted in the fact that opensm made
> assumptions about timers based on the Linux implementation, and that the
> Windows timer implementation is *much* more relaxed in its operation.
The behavior between user space and the kernel will likely be different.  For the kernel, we should toss the abstraction completely, but for now, I assumed that the code behaved like the underlying kernel timers.  E.g. start implicitly cancels the timer if it's running.
    
    
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