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Date:      Mon, 11 Oct 2010 09:27:48 -0700
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org>
To:        Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net>
Cc:        "src-committers@freebsd.org" <src-committers@freebsd.org>, Weongyo Jeong <weongyo@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-user@freebsd.org" <svn-src-user@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r213540 - user/weongyo/usb/sys/dev/usb/net
Message-ID:  <4CB33B04.8070609@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <201010111739.25082.hselasky@c2i.net>
References:  <201010080152.o981q1gJ074407@svn.freebsd.org> <201010111739.25082.hselasky@c2i.net>

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  On 10/11/10 8:39 AM, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> On Friday 08 October 2010 03:52:01 Weongyo Jeong wrote:
>> Author: weongyo
>> Date: Fri Oct  8 01:52:01 2010
>> New Revision: 213540
>> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/213540
>>
>> Log:
>>    o fixes a regression that setting the promiscuous mode should be
>>      happened at the taskqueue.  It's to avoid a `sleepable after
>>      non-sleepable' because ioctl handler could be called with holding bpf
>>      mtx which is a default mutex.
>>    o defines SLEEPOUT_DRAIN_TASK helper.
>>
[...]

> These taskqueues belong in the network stack and not the USB drivers! And
> please understand that you cannot use taskqueues for these commands, because
> the events can be executed out of order!!!


sounds like we should add an option to taskqueues to fix this then.
I'd rather fix the standard facility than make a new one.
> --HPS
>



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