From: Ross Lagerwall
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2015 15:40:59 +0100
> Waking the dealloc thread before decrementing inflight_packets is racy
> because it means the thread may go to sleep before inflight_packets is
> decremented. If kthread_stop() has already been called, the dealloc
> thread may wait forev
Waking the dealloc thread before decrementing inflight_packets is racy
because it means the thread may go to sleep before inflight_packets is
decremented. If kthread_stop() has already been called, the dealloc
thread may wait forever with nothing to wake it. Instead, wake the
thread only after decr
On Tue, Aug 04, 2015 at 03:40:59PM +0100, Ross Lagerwall wrote:
> Waking the dealloc thread before decrementing inflight_packets is racy
> because it means the thread may go to sleep before inflight_packets is
> decremented. If kthread_stop() has already been called, the dealloc
> thread may wait f
