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author | Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com> | 2008-09-30 10:36:21 -0700 |
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committer | Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com> | 2008-09-30 10:36:21 -0700 |
commit | 943c246e9ba9078a61b6bcc5b4a8131ce8befb64 (patch) | |
tree | 5be6015188c06d14ff39ac85f28f58834d001d05 /Documentation/md.txt | |
parent | c9da4bad5b80c3d9884e2c6ad8d2091252c32d5e (diff) |
IPoIB: Use netif_tx_lock() and get rid of private tx_lock, LLTX
Currently, IPoIB is an LLTX driver that uses its own IRQ-disabling
tx_lock. Not only do we want to get rid of LLTX, this actually causes
problems because of the skb_orphan() done with this tx_lock held: some
skb destructors expect to be run with interrupts enabled.
The simplest fix for this is to get rid of the driver-private tx_lock
and stop using LLTX. We kill off priv->tx_lock and use
netif_tx_lock[_bh]() instead; the patch to do this is a tiny bit
tricky because we need to update places that take priv->lock inside
the tx_lock to disable IRQs, rather than relying on tx_lock having
already disabled IRQs.
Also, there are a couple of places where we need to disable BHs to
make sure we have a consistent context to call netif_tx_lock() (since
we no longer can use _irqsave() variants), and we also have to change
ipoib_send_comp_handler() to call drain_tx_cq() through a timer rather
than directly, because ipoib_send_comp_handler() runs in interrupt
context and drain_tx_cq() must run in BH context so it can call
netif_tx_lock().
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
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