netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v5 1/9] xen-netback: Introduce TX grant map definitions

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Message-ID: <1392744286.23084.52.camel@kazak.uk.xensource.com>
Date:	Tue, 18 Feb 2014 17:24:46 +0000
From:	Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@...rix.com>
To:	Zoltan Kiss <zoltan.kiss@...rix.com>
CC:	<wei.liu2@...rix.com>, <xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org>,
	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<jonathan.davies@...rix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v5 1/9] xen-netback: Introduce TX grant map
 definitions

On Mon, 2014-01-20 at 21:24 +0000, Zoltan Kiss wrote:
> 
> +       spinlock_t dealloc_lock;
> +       spinlock_t response_lock; 

Please add comments to both of these describing what bits of the
datastructure they are locking.

You might find it is clearer to group the locks and the things they
protect together rather than grouping the locks together.

Ian.

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