netdev - Re: [PATCH 3/3] ifb: move tq from ifb

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Message-ID: <AANLkTi=MFQc4_mYkwiKPzT_NmRRxou18P60ZZo+pYsNp@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Sat, 4 Dec 2010 23:07:22 +0800
From:	Changli Gao <xiaosuo@...il.com>
To:	hadi@...erus.ca
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] ifb: move tq from ifb_private

On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 10:59 PM, jamal <hadi@...erus.ca> wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-12-04 at 22:50 +0800, Changli Gao wrote:
>
>> Maybe you misread my patch. tq is a stack variable in ri_tasklet, and
>> initialized all the time. ri_tasklet() won't exits until tq is
>> empty().
>
> in your patch is a variable on the stack.
> What i am saying is you should defer processing when there is an
> error (note the two other spots i mentioned).
> This means you may leave dp->tq non-empty and therefore it
> needs to be saved somewhere as it is before your patch.
>

I know what you concern now. Thanks. I'll keep the old behavior in v2.


-- 
Regards,
Changli Gao(xiaosuo@...il.com)
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