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Commit e135106f authored by Doug Ledford's avatar Doug Ledford
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IB/ipoib: factor out ah flushing



Create a an ipoib_flush_ah and ipoib_stop_ah routines to use at
appropriate times to flush out all remaining ah entries before we shut
the device down.

Because neighbors and mcast entries can each have a reference on any
given ah, we must make sure to free all of those first before our ah
will actually have a 0 refcount and be able to be reaped.

This factoring is needed in preparation for having per-device work
queues.  The original per-device workqueue code resulted in the following
error message:

<ibdev>: ib_dealloc_pd failed

That error was tracked down to this issue.  With the changes to which
workqueues were flushed when, there were no flushes of the per device
workqueue after the last ah's were freed, resulting in an attempt to
dealloc the pd with outstanding resources still allocated.  This code
puts the explicit flushes in the needed places to avoid that problem.

Signed-off-by: default avatarDoug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
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