Re: [PATCH 2/9] aoe: print warning regarding a common reason fordropped transmits

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Wed Oct 17 2012 - 18:09:22 EST


On Mon, 15 Oct 2012 18:42:43 -0700
Ed Cashin <ecashin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Dropped transmits are not common, but when they do occur, increasing
> the transmit queue length often helps.
>
> ...
>
> +/* enters with txlock held
> + *
> + * Use __must_hold(&txlock) for sparse when upcoming patch adds it to
> + * compiler.h.
> + */

Let's just make that change now and I'll take care of getting
linux-compilerh-add-__must_hold-macro-for-functions-called-with-a-lock-held.patch
merged ahead of this one.

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