> Quoting Roland Dreier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Subject: Re: mlx4 violating radix tree API locking rules? > > By the way, in the past we've gotten push-back against using RCU in > dual GPL/BSD code.
I don't know what official Mellanox position is on this. I think that in this case it's OK, simply because RCU here is just a requirement from radix tree code, not from mlx4 itself, so anyone who wants to use this code under BSD license, can just implement radix tree in a way that does not require RCU, and then rip out RCU calls. > I have no problem relicensing mlx4 to GPL-only and > then sticking in the rcu_read_lock() stuff to handle this I guess. I don't see how that would help. BTW I looked for BSD code in kernel today that uses RCU: $grep -i RCU `grep -l 'source and binary forms' . -rI after manually filtering out words such as circular, gave me: ./net/sunrpc/auth_gss/auth_gss.c ./fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c ./drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/ipath_verbs_mcast.c -- MST _______________________________________________ general mailing list general@lists.openfabrics.org http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
