Herbert Xu wrote: > David S. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Other implementation possibility suggestions welcome :-) > > > I see two possibilities: > > 1) Move the af_packet hook into the NIC driver. > 2) Rethink the lockless tx setup. If all NICs followed the tg3 and > replaced spin_lock_irqsave with spin_lock then we should be able > to go back to just using the xmit_lock.
3) Clone the skb and have dev_queue_xmit_nit() consume it. That should actually be pretty easy. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html