Robert Love wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 10:40 -0700, Chris Leech wrote:
>> Rather than rely on the hostlist_lock to be held while creating exchange
>> managers, serialize fcoe instance creation and destruction with a mutex.
>> This will allow the hostlist addition to be moved out of fcoe_if_create(),
>> which will simplify NPIV support.
>>
> Is there a reason that we don't use the rtnl_lock for protection? It's
> already held when we get the NETDEV_UNREGISTER event (added in patch
> 13/13). I believe that doing so would remove the need to defer the
> fcoe_destroy() call since the deferral is only needed so that we don't
> grab the rtnl_lock twice.
I considered that, too. It seems a bit like a layering violation to use
it to protect create/delete/exit, but maybe it's OK to do since we
need to grab rtnl_lock anyway.
In fcoe_exit() we would have to be careful because
unregister_netdevice_notifier() does rtnl_lock(),
but if we did the unregister before grabbing rtnl_lock,
that would be OK.
It could completely eliminate the need for hostlist_lock and create_lock,
so it seems like a nice idea.
Joe
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