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From: Casey Leedom <leedom@chelsio•com>
To: Anirban Chakraborty <anirban.chakraborty@qlogic•com>
Cc: "netdev@vger•kernel.org" <netdev@vger•kernel.org>,
	"davem@davemloft•net" <davem@davemloft•net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-26 4/5] cxgb4vf: Quiesce Virtual Interfaces on shutdown ...
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 11:01:22 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201102141101.22326.leedom@chelsio.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F12A7E83-6F8D-4558-A7B5-174D9509891C@qlogic.com>

| From: Anirban Chakraborty <anirban.chakraborty@qlogic•com>
| Date: Friday, February 11, 2011 11:17 pm
| 
| 
| You could invoke pci_reset_function as an alternative, that would make sure
| FLR happens.

  I'd love to do that but pci_reset_function() ends up taking the device 
semaphore in the underlaying routine pci_dev_reset().  I used to call 
pci_reset_function() in my probe() routine till 2.6.31 where that lock as added 
... which resulted in an instant self-deadlock ...

Casey

  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-14 19:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-12  1:00 [PATCH net-26 0/5] cxgb4vf: minor bug fixes Casey Leedom
2011-02-12  1:00 ` [PATCH net-26 1/5] cxgb4vf: Virtual Interfaces are always up Casey Leedom
2011-02-12  5:19   ` David Miller
2011-02-14 19:13     ` Casey Leedom
2011-02-14 22:31       ` Casey Leedom
2011-02-14 22:34         ` David Miller
2011-02-12  1:00 ` [PATCH net-26 2/5] cxgb4vf: Check driver parameters in the right place Casey Leedom
2011-02-12  1:00 ` [PATCH net-26 3/5] cxgb4vf: Behave properly when CONFIG_DEBUG_FS isn't defined Casey Leedom
2011-02-12  1:00 ` [PATCH net-26 4/5] cxgb4vf: Quiesce Virtual Interfaces on shutdown Casey Leedom
2011-02-12  7:17   ` Anirban Chakraborty
2011-02-14 19:01     ` Casey Leedom [this message]
2011-02-12  1:00 ` [PATCH net-26 5/5] cxgb4vf: Use defined Mailbox Timeout Casey Leedom

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