[PATCH 1/1] hv: Use only one txf buffer per channel and kmalloc on initialize

Hank Janssen hjanssen at microsoft.com
Mon Dec 13 22:57:10 UTC 2010



-----Original Message-----
>From: Evgeniy Polyakov [mailto:zbr at ioremap.net] 
>Sent: Monday, December 13, 2010 2:04 PM
>
>On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 01:14:21PM -0800, Hank Janssen (hjanssen at microsoft.com) wrote:
>> +static u8 *shut_txf_buf;
>> +static u8 *time_txf_buf;
>> +static u8 *hbeat_txf_buf;
>
>Those are accessed without any kind of synchronization. I do not know exact context, but are you sure it is single-threaded?

The hv_utils driver services are all single threaded. The other drivers are not, but this one is.

Hank.





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