# Re: \[PATCH net-next\] devlink: Require devlink lock during device reload

- From: Jakub Kicinski \<kuba@kernel.org\>
- Date: 2021-11-09 14:17:41 
- List: netdev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2021/11/1566983
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2021/10/1558858/t.md

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On Tue, 9 Nov 2021 16:12:33 +0200 Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > You'd need to tell me more about what the notifier is used for (I see
> > RoCE in the call trace). I don't understand why you need to re-register 
> > a global (i.e. not per netns) notifier when devlink is switching name
> > spaces.  
> 
> RDMA subsystem supports two net namespace aware scenarios.
> 
> We need global netdev_notifier for shared mode. This is legacy mode where
> we listen to all namespaces. We must support this mode otherwise we break
> whole RDMA world.
> 
> See commit below:
> de641d74fb00 ("Revert "RDMA/mlx5: Fix devlink deadlock on net namespace deletion"")

But why re-reg? To take advantage of clean event replay?

IIUC the problem is that the un-reg is called from the reload_down path.
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