linux/drivers/infiniband
Roland Dreier 943c246e9b 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>
2008-09-30 10:36:21 -07:00
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core Merge branches 'cma', 'cxgb3', 'ipath', 'ipoib', 'mad' and 'mlx4' into for-linus 2008-08-07 14:12:03 -07:00
hw Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband 2008-09-19 16:18:21 -07:00
ulp IPoIB: Use netif_tx_lock() and get rid of private tx_lock, LLTX 2008-09-30 10:36:21 -07:00
Kconfig RDMA/nes: Add a driver for NetEffect RNICs 2008-02-04 20:20:45 -08:00
Makefile RDMA/nes: Add a driver for NetEffect RNICs 2008-02-04 20:20:45 -08:00