> Yes, that is where I was driving too as well, but I don't know why > this is try and fail with no lock today. Sean? Do you recall? I don't recall off the top of my head why the lock couldn't be held throughout the call. Guessing, I don't think all calling threads could block, and part of the scheme resulted from trying to handle device removal. - Sean -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html