On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:06:47 -0600 Olof Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I noticed this when looking at an openswan issue. Openswan (ab?)uses > the tasklet API to defer processing of packets in some situations, > with one packet per tasklet_action(). I started noticing sequences > of backwards-ordered sequence numbers coming over the wire, since > new tasklets are always queued at the head of the list but processed > sequentially. > > Convert it to instead append new entries to the tail of the list. As an > extra bonus, the splicing code in takeover_tasklets() no longer has to > iterate over the list. hm, well, let's see what if any effect this has on networking. I'll cheerily tag this as to-be-merged-via-git-sched. Ingo wasn't doing much anyway. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
