Messages in this thread |  | | From | Reto Baettig <> | Subject | io_request_lock question (2.2) | Date | Thu, 7 Dec 2000 16:17:30 -0800 (PST) |
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Hi
I'm trying to write a block device driver which does some network stuff to satisfy the requests. The problem is, that the network stuff wants to grab the io_request_lock which does not work because this lock is already locked when I come into the request_fn of my device.
I looked at the implementation of the nbd which just calls
spin_unlock_irq(&io_request_lock); ... do network io ... spin_lock_irq(&io_request_lock);
This seems to work but it looks very dangerous to me (and ugly, too). Isn't there a better way to do this?
Thanks very much
Reto
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