netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] liquidio: avoided acquiring post

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Date:   Tue, 07 Aug 2018 12:41:05 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     felix.manlunas@...ium.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, raghu.vatsavayi@...ium.com,
        derek.chickles@...ium.com, satananda.burla@...ium.com,
        intiyaz.basha@...ium.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] liquidio: avoided acquiring post_lock for
 data only queues

From: Felix Manlunas <felix.manlunas@...ium.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2018 13:09:40 -0700

> From: Intiyaz Basha <intiyaz.basha@...ium.com>
> 
> All control commands (soft commands) goes through only Queue 0
> (control and data queue). So only queue-0 needs post_lock,
> other queues are only data queues and does not need post_lock
> 
> Added a flag to indicate the queue can be used for soft commands.
> 
> If this flag is set, post_lock must be acquired before posting
> a command to the queue.
> If this flag is clear, post_lock is invalid for the queue.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Intiyaz Basha <intiyaz.basha@...ium.com>
> Signed-off-by: Felix Manlunas <felix.manlunas@...ium.com>

Applied, thank you.