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Re: [RFTv2 3/5] ath10k: rework peer accounting

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Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> It was troublesome to iterate over peers and
> perform sleepable calls. This will be necessary
> for some upcomming changes to tx flushing.
>
> Make peer allocation and initial setup
> protected by both ar->conf_mutex and
> ar->data_lock. This way it's possible to iterate
> over peers with conf_mutex and call sleepable
> functions.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@xxxxxxxxx>

Sorry, but I'm not really getting your idea here of using both
conf_mutex and data_lock to protect ar->peers. Can you elaborate more,
please? Why can't we just use conf_mutex then? What am I missing?

-- 
Kalle Valo
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