netdev - Re: [Linux-zigbee-devel] [PATCH 1/6] mac802154: Immediately retry sending failed packets

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Message-Id: <20130402.223036.1483788180825619960.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 02 Apr 2013 22:30:36 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	alan@...nal11.us
Cc:	werner@...esberger.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-zigbee-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Linux-zigbee-devel] [PATCH 1/6] mac802154: Immediately retry
 sending failed packets

From: Alan Ott <alan@...nal11.us>
Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2013 22:25:28 -0400

> The workqueue in mac802154 is only needed because the current mac802154
> xmit() function is designed to be blocking and synchronous.
> 
> Prior to my patch (#3/6), that very same workqueue would actually queue
> up packets (without bound). That's what my patch fixes.
> 
> The workqueue in mac802154 also serializes the access to the device for
> other functions like setting the channel, ensuring that in the driver
> code, one doesn't have to mutex everything. I'm not sure if that's the
> "right" way to do it, but that's the way it was when I got here.

This is entirely duplicating existing facilities.

Your desire to allow blockability during xmit() on the basis of mutual
exclusion is not well founded.
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