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authorEd Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>2012-10-04 17:16:25 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-10-06 03:05:25 +0900
commiteb086ec59667df5b07d58176e21a5f523ead1d66 (patch)
tree85c0fa90b4791659f128518115ca0df4ece88586 /drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c
parent69cf2d85de773d998798e47e3335b85e5645d157 (diff)
aoe: use a kernel thread for transmissions
The dev_queue_xmit function needs to have interrupts enabled, so the most simple way to get the locking right but still fulfill that requirement is to use a process that can call dev_queue_xmit serially over queued transmissions. Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c b/drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c
index 5928a08c1f3..a1c5e8aa08c 100644
--- a/drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c
+++ b/drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c
@@ -1110,14 +1110,14 @@ kthread(void *vp)
return 0;
}
-static void
+void
aoe_ktstop(struct ktstate *k)
{
kthread_stop(k->task);
wait_for_completion(&k->rendez);
}
-static int
+int
aoe_ktstart(struct ktstate *k)
{
struct task_struct *task;