[Lustre-devel] client side reply handling

[Yuriy Umanets]

2009/12/9 Peter Braam <peter.braam at clusterstor.com>

> Hi,
>
> hi Peter,


> I wonder if LNET doesn't have an atomic operation that unlinks the packet
> from the delivery process upon receiving a packet.   Iirc it does.  Why
> wouldn't one use that?
>
That is probably because it still may be in use by upper layers (ptlrpc,
etc), i.e. it is up to upper layer to decide should its buffers be still
linked for access or not.

Thanks.

>
> Peter
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umka
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