linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2.6.21-rc1 4/5] ehca: replace yield() by wait_for

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Message-ID: <20070214222824.GA11579@infradead.org>
Date:	Wed, 14 Feb 2007 22:28:24 +0000
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Hoang-Nam Nguyen <hnguyen@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linuxppc-dev@...abs.org, openib-general@...nib.org,
	hch@...radead.org, raisch@...ibm.com, h.carstens@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.21-rc1 4/5] ehca: replace yield() by wait_for_completion()

> @@ -332,7 +333,7 @@ int ehca_destroy_cq(struct ib_cq *cq)
>         spin_lock_irqsave(&ehca_cq_idr_lock, flags);
>         while (my_cq->nr_callbacks) {
>                 spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ehca_cq_idr_lock, flags);
> -               yield();
> +               wait_for_completion(&my_cq->zero_callbacks);
>                 spin_lock_irqsave(&ehca_cq_idr_lock, flags);
>         }

A while loop around wait_for_completion doesn't make all that much sense.
I suspect a simple

	if (my_cq->nr_callbacks)
		wait_for_completion(&my_cq->zero_callbacks);

Is what you need.

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