netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/3] bonding: 3 fixes for 2.6.24

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Date:	Thu, 10 Jan 2008 12:50:46 -0800
From:	Jay Vosburgh <fubar@...ibm.com>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
cc:	Andy Gospodarek <andy@...yhouse.net>,
	Krzysztof Oledzki <olel@....pl>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...ox.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] bonding: 3 fixes for 2.6.24 

Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> wrote:

>On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 09:51:44AM -0500, Andy Gospodarek wrote:
>>
>> That wasn't the only purpose, Herbert.  Making sure that calls to
>> dev_set_mac_address were called from process context was important at
>> the time of the coding as well since at least the tg3 driver took locks
>> that could not be taken reliably in soft-irq context.  Michael Chan
>> fixed this here:
>
>Sure, but where do you call that function while holding the bond lock?

	If I recall correctly, the problem was that tg3, et al, did
things that might sleep, and bonding was calling from a timer context,
which couldn't sleep.  It wasn't about the lock.

	-J

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