On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 08:33:51AM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > That's good, IMHO. > > It will also prevent hotplug from working. So no, I dont think its good.
I agree that hotplug should work. I'm just pointing out that keeping the file open should prevent the driver from unloading. > > Unloading the HCA driver will disable the device. > > On ia64 platforms (and probably PPC too) will lead to hard fail on the > > next MMIO read since the device won't respond to MMIO space accesses. > > > > "lsof /sys/class/infiniband" would help track down the monitoring tool. > > Who would do MMIO reads if the driver is unloaded? No one if the /sys file was closed like we want them too. I'm just pointing out the counters must point at an enabled device for as long as any one of the /sys files was open. thanks, grant _______________________________________________ openib-general mailing list [email protected] http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
