netdev - RE: [PATCH v3 19/20] RDMA: Add irdma Kconfig/Makefile and remove i40iw

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Date:   Thu, 2 Jan 2020 16:00:37 +0000
From:   "Saleem, Shiraz" <shiraz.saleem@...el.com>
To:     Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>
CC:     "Kirsher, Jeffrey T" <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>,
        "davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "gregkh@...uxfoundation.org" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org" <linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org>,
        "nhorman@...hat.com" <nhorman@...hat.com>,
        "sassmann@...hat.com" <sassmann@...hat.com>,
        "parav@...lanox.com" <parav@...lanox.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH v3 19/20] RDMA: Add irdma Kconfig/Makefile and remove
 i40iw

> Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 19/20] RDMA: Add irdma Kconfig/Makefile and remove
> i40iw
> 
> 
> > >  - The whole cqp_compl_thread thing looks really weird
> > What is the concern?
> 
> It looks like an open coded work queue
> 

The cqp_compl_thread is not a work queue in the sense
that no work is queued to it. It is a thread that is signaled to
check for and handle CQP completion events if present.