netdev - Re: [patch 5/7] bonding: replace system timer with work queue

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Date:	Mon, 26 Mar 2007 23:25:07 -0700
From:	Jay Vosburgh <fubar@...ibm.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org, perex@...e.cz,
	oleg@...sign.ru, shemminger@...ux-foundation.org,
	Andy Gospodarek <andy@...yhouse.net>
Subject: Re: [patch 5/7] bonding: replace system timer with work queue 

Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

>On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 21:50:01 -0800 akpm@...ux-foundation.org wrote:
>
>> Replace system timer with work queue in monitor functions.  The reason for
>> this change is that bonding handlers calls various sleeping functions from
>> the timer handler which is not allowed.  Because we cannot share the main
>> workqueue threads (rtnl_lock is used also in linkwatch_event) - new bond
>> workqueue thread is created.
>
>I have a note here that this patch needs additional work.
>
>I forget what it was, there has since been no followup and hence I shall now
>drop this patch.

	Andy Gospodarek <andy@...yhouse.net> and I have been working off
list to come up with a comprehensive scheme to resolve the various
locking problems in bonding all at once, rather than piecemeal.
Currently, we believe we've identified all of the problem areas, have
worked up a set of locking rules, and are now hashing out an
implementation that (hopefully) doesn't suck.

	The patch referenced above is more or less a functional subset
of the work we're doing, in that we'll also be moving the timers to
workqueues.

	Andy, anything to add?

	-J

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	-Jay Vosburgh, IBM Linux Technology Center, fubar@...ibm.com
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