On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 01:29:22AM +0000, Ruhl, Michael J wrote: > Should the mutex be held while calling the callback? If the newlink or dellink > callbacks need to sleep (probably dellink specifically), I think holding the mutex > might not be a good idea. It would be a bit better if this lock was a rwsem, but it must be held whenever ops is touched.. This is probably a moot point though when dellink goes through the ib_dev not the ops list.. Jason
