Re: [PATCH] IB/sa: replace GFP_KERNEL with GFP_ATOMIC

[Jason Gunthorpe]

On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 06:56:50PM +0000, Wan, Kaike wrote:
 
> > I do wonder if it is a good idea to call ib_nl_send_msg with a spinlock held
> > though.. Would be nice to see that go away.
> 
> We have to hold the lock to protect against a race condition that a
> quick response will try to free the request from the
> ib_nl_request_list before we even put it on the list.

Put is on the list first? Use a kref? Doesn't look like a big deal to
clean this up.

Jason
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