netdev - Re: unsafe locks seen with netperf on net-2.6.29 tree

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Message-ID: <20081229121626.GF9628@elte.hu>
Date:	Mon, 29 Dec 2008 13:16:26 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	"Tantilov, Emil S" <emil.s.tantilov@...el.com>,
	"Kirsher, Jeffrey T" <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P" <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@...el.com>,
	"Duyck, Alexander H" <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>
Subject: Re: unsafe locks seen with netperf on net-2.6.29 tree


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

> On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 12:58:27PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> > no, i only applied one of them. Is his second patch a good solution in 
> > your opinion, and should i thus test both of them? (or will the second one 
> > iterate some more - in which case i will keep the revert for now)
> 
> Well the second patch is definitely the right solution to the problem as 
> reported.  It just needs to be extended to fix other similar bugs 
> introduced by the original changeset.

okay - will keep the revert for now and will wait for you guys to do the 
full fix.

	Ingo
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