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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211:  Fix deadlock in ieee80211_do_stop.
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 07:34:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CE4C8DD.6010806@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1290020005.3777.6.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net>

Hello,

On 11/17/2010 07:53 PM, Johannes Berg wrote:
>> WQ_NON_REENTRANT doesn't guarantee ordered execution but it guarantees
>> that a single work is not executed concurrently on multiple CPUs.  I'm
>> not sure whether this would be safe for the workqueue used by mac80211
>> but it should let us know whether the workqueue is choked due to a
>> work which is executing for long time.  In the long run, if using non
>> reentrant is safe for mac80211, using it would be much better.
> 
> No, I don't think it's safe for mac80211.

I see.  In the longer run tho, it would be much better to convert to
NRT workqueue.  The behavior would be more robust with much lower
latencies.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-11-18  6:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-12 20:07 [PATCH] mac80211: Fix deadlock in ieee80211_do_stop greearb
2010-11-12 20:08 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-11-12 20:16   ` Ben Greear
2010-11-12 20:49 ` Johannes Berg
2010-11-12 20:57   ` Ben Greear
2010-11-12 21:08     ` Johannes Berg
2010-11-12 21:51       ` Ben Greear
2010-11-13 10:34       ` Tejun Heo
2010-11-15 21:16         ` Ben Greear
2010-11-16 14:19           ` Tejun Heo
2010-11-16 16:51             ` Ben Greear
2010-11-17  8:55               ` Tejun Heo
2010-11-17 17:37                 ` Ben Greear
2010-11-16 17:40             ` Johannes Berg
2010-11-17  8:47               ` Tejun Heo
2010-11-17 18:53                 ` Johannes Berg
2010-11-17 18:59                   ` Ben Greear
2010-11-17 19:03                     ` Johannes Berg
2010-11-18  6:34                   ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2010-11-18  7:07                     ` Johannes Berg
2010-11-18  7:22                       ` Tejun Heo
2010-11-18 16:59                         ` Johannes Berg
2010-11-19 14:34                           ` Tejun Heo
2010-11-19 17:57                             ` Johannes Berg
2010-11-19 20:55                               ` Ben Greear
2010-11-19 22:27                                 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-12-08 17:36                                   ` Ben Greear
2010-12-08 18:19                                     ` Ben Greear
2010-12-08 18:28                                       ` Ben Greear
2010-12-09 14:34                                         ` Tejun Heo
2010-12-09 14:42                                           ` Johannes Berg
2010-12-09 14:46                                             ` Tejun Heo
2010-12-09 16:17                                               ` Tejun Heo
     [not found]                                                 ` <4D0156F6.4000306@candelate ch.com>
2010-12-09 17:27                                                 ` Ben Greear
2010-12-09 22:23                                                 ` Ben Greear
2010-12-10 15:11                                                   ` Tejun Heo
2010-12-10 16:35                                                     ` Ben Greear
2010-11-18 17:55                         ` Ben Greear
2010-11-18 18:04                           ` Tejun Heo
2010-11-18 18:11                             ` Ben Greear
2010-11-17 20:13             ` Ben Greear

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