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The issue comes when there are multiple threads attempting to use the mailbox facility at the same time. When DCB operations and interface up/down is run in a loop for every 0.1 sec, we observed mailbox collisions. And out of the two commands one would fail with the present code, since we don't queue the second command. To overcome the above issue, added a queue to access the mailbox. Whenever a mailbox command is issued add it to the queue. If its at the head issue the mailbox command, else wait for the existing command to complete. Usually command takes less than a milli-second to complete. Also timeout from the loop, if the command under execution takes long time to run. In reality, the number of mailbox access collisions is going to be very rare since no one runs such abusive script. Signed-off-by: Hariprasad Shenai <hariprasad@chelsio.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.