linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 8/8] IB/mlx5: Add helper mlx5_ib_post_send

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Date:   Tue, 25 Oct 2016 18:16:17 +0530
From:   Binoy Jayan <binoy.jayan@...aro.org>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:     Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>,
        Sean Hefty <sean.hefty@...el.com>,
        Hal Rosenstock <hal.rosenstock@...il.com>,
        linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org,
        Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 8/8] IB/mlx5: Add helper mlx5_ib_post_send_wait

On 25 October 2016 at 17:53, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> wrote:
> On Tuesday, October 25, 2016 5:31:59 PM CEST Binoy Jayan wrote:
> Looks reasonable.

Thank you Arnd for looking at it again.

> Did you get a warning about 'bad' being unused here? I would have
> guessed not, since the original code was not that different and
> it does get passed into a function.

I remembered getting a warning like that, but when i remove the unused
attribute now, it does not. It was probably a side effect of some other error.
Will change it.

> Why not move the umr_context variable into this function too?
> The only thing we ever seem to do to is initialize it and
> assign the wr_cqe pointer, both of which can be done here.

I guess it could be done.

Binoy