[rds-devel] [PATCH RFC] RDS: Don't use mutex in interrupt contexts.

Steve Wise swise at opengridcomputing.com
Wed Jan 14 14:02:01 PST 2009


Jon Mason wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 04:15:51PM -0500, Richard Frank wrote:
>   
>> Prior to 1.4. for IB we want to refill as fast as possible as it depends 
>> on IB flow control...
>>
>> After 1.4 ...which now has flow control - it's probably not an issue.. 
>> on the other hand we have virtually no experience running with RDS in 1.4..
>>     
>
> Perhaps then the change should be made only in the iw_* files and a note
> added in the ib_* pointing out the situation and the fix in iw_*.
>
>   

I disagree.  The code is broken in both.  Lets fix it in both.

Steve.



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