netdev - Re: [PATCHv2 net-next 3/3] sunvnet: Schedule maybe_tx_wakeup() as a tasklet from ldc

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Message-Id: <20140813.163429.2256509090025006188.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 13 Aug 2014 16:34:29 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	sowmini.varadhan@...cle.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 net-next 3/3] sunvnet: Schedule maybe_tx_wakeup() as
 a tasklet from ldc_rx path

From: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@...cle.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 10:29:41 -0400

> At the tail of vnet_event(), if we hit the maybe_tx_wakeup()
> condition, we try to take the netif_tx_lock() in the
> recv-interrupt-context and can deadlock with dev_watchdog().
> vnet_event() should schedule maybe_tx_wakeup() as a tasklet
> to avoid this deadlock
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@...cle.com>

Applied, thanks.
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