Hi Ohad,

Sure I will do it.

Regards,
Rene

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ohad Ben-Cohen [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 9:43 AM
> To: Guzman Lugo, Fernando; Sapiens, Rene
> Cc: Hiroshi DOYU; [email protected]; linux-arm-
> [email protected]; Kanigeri, Hari
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/10] omap: mailbox: convert block api to kfifo
> 
> Hi Rene,
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 8:38 AM, Guzman Lugo, Fernando
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 7:16 PM, Sapiens, Rene <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >>> In mbox_rx_work() you are removing the lines that enable back
> the  mbox irq for the RX case, but inside  __mbox_rx_interrupt() this
> interrupt  is disabled in the case that the kfifo for Rx >mailbox gets
> full. So I think that we need to enable it back as soon as there is space
> in this kfifo.
> >>
> >>
> >>Actually these irq on/off lines are not part of my patch; they are
> >>introduced by patch 05/10 on top of which my patches were rebased.
> >>
> >>Nevertheless I agree with you - the kfifo migration patch should not
> >>affect that irq on/off behavior. It's probably just a rebase gotcha.
> >>
> >>But now that you point me to this irq on/off thing, it looks a bit
> >>broken in terms of multiple concurrent mbox support since it relies on
> >>a global rq_full state. I guess it'd be better to hold that rq_full
> >>state in the relevant mbox queue state itself.
> >>
> >>Fernando what do you think ?
> >
> > Yes, you are right Ohad. Only should be disable the "new message"
> interrupt of the mailbox which kfifo is full.
> 
> 
> 
> Once Fernando's fix will get thru, we will be able to fix the rebase
> error that you pointed out.
> 
> Unfortunately I will not have any email access in the next 3 weeks,
> and I was hoping maybe you could submit a fix for this once Fernando's
> fix is accepted ? I would really like us to fix this early in the days
> of 2.6.36, maybe even during the merge window.
> 
> Thanks a lot,
> Ohad.
> 
> >
> > regards,
> > Fernando.
> >
> >>
> >>Thanks,
> >>Ohad.
> >
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