Re: [PATCH 14/22] IB/ipoib: remove unneeded locks

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On 02/12/2015 03:43 AM, Doug Ledford wrote:
During the various work I've done on this, some extra locking has crept
in when things weren't working right.  This is one of those spots.
Remove the unneeded spinlocks.

we need a more concrete/precise text here explaining why these locking spots can be removed. What you wrote is too high level and can not really be used in future debugging/bisection and maintenance, sorry.

The mutex is enough to protect against what we need to protect against.

but this is the very same mutex you are removing in a downstream patch of the series, isn't that?!

Or.


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