From: Eilon Greenstein Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 05:22:18 +0000 (-0800) Subject: bnx2x: Using singlethread work queue X-Git-Tag: v2.6.29-rc2~11^2~22 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1cf167f27ad2720af11ee8aa350009342f909e70;p=pandora-kernel.git bnx2x: Using singlethread work queue Since slow-path events, including link update, are handled in work-queue, a race condition was introduced in the self-test that sometimes caused the link status to fail: the self-test was running under RTNL lock, and if the link-watch was scheduled it stoped the shared work-queue (waiting for the RTNL lock) and so the link update event was not handled until the self-test ended (releasing the RTNL lock) with failure (since the link status was not updated) Signed-off-by: Eilon Greenstein Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- Reading git-diff-tree failed