netdev - Re: [PATCH net v5 1/5] bnx2x: protect different statistics flows

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Date:	Tue, 13 Aug 2013 13:54:15 -0400
From:	Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>
To:	Dmitry Kravkov <dmitry@...adcom.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, eilong@...adcom.com,
	Ariel Elior <ariele@...adcom.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v5 1/5] bnx2x: protect different statistics flows

On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 7:24 PM, Dmitry Kravkov <dmitry@...adcom.com> wrote:
> Add locking to protect different statistics flows from
> running simultaneously.
> This in order to serialize statistics requests sent to FW,
> otherwise two outstanding queries may cause FW assert.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kravkov <dmitry@...adcom.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ariel Elior <ariele@...adcom.com>
> Signed-off-by: Eilon Greenstein <eilong@...adcom.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x.h       |  2 +
>  drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_main.c  |  1 +
>  drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_stats.c | 66 ++++++++++++++++++-----
>  3 files changed, 57 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x.h
> index d80e34b..98be67f 100644

Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>

Thanks!

neal
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