On 05/18/2018 02:37 PM, Pavel Tatashin wrote: > * parallelized this function, so drop lock for the >> >> Parallelizing? Else the sentence doesn't parse for me. :-)
My comment hardly makes sense when you removed all the context... > Hi Sergei, > > In a separate series I parallelized device_shutdown(), see: > http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180516024004.28977-1-pasha.tatas...@oracle.com > > But, this particular patch should be dropped, as discussed in this thread: > http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180503035931.22439-2-pasha.tatas...@oracle.com > > > Alexander Duyck, made a point that a generic RTNL scalability fix should be > done. This particular patch might introduce a race, since it relies on > assumption that RTNL is not needed in this place because ixgbe_close() does > not have it, but Alexander Duyck, says that the callers of ixgbe_close() are > assumed to own this lock. My comment was about the English grammar only. :-) > Thank you, > Pavel MBR, Sergei
