From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: jakub.kicinski@netronome.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, oss-drivers@netronome.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] nfp: ethtool flash updates
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2017 12:26:53 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171215.122653.1143320078306215873.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171213224502.25407-1-jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>
From: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2017 14:45:00 -0800
> Dirk says:
>
> This series adds the ability to update the control FW with ethtool.
>
> It should be noted that the locking scheme here is to release the RTNL
> lock before the flashing operation and to take it again afterwards to
> ensure consistent state from the core code point of view. In this time,
> we take a reference to the device to prevent the device being freed
> while its being flashed.
>
> This provides protection for the device being flashed while at the same
> time not holding up any networking related functions which would
> otherwise be locked out due to RTNL being held.
Series applied, thanks.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-15 17:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-13 22:45 [PATCH net-next 0/2] nfp: ethtool flash updates Jakub Kicinski
2017-12-13 22:45 ` [PATCH net-next 1/2] nfp: extend NSP infrastructure for configurable timeouts Jakub Kicinski
2017-12-13 22:45 ` [PATCH net-next 2/2] nfp: implement firmware flashing Jakub Kicinski
2017-12-15 17:26 ` David Miller [this message]
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