On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 04:46:40PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: > Ok, here is what something like this might look like. > > In summary: > > 1) dev->xmit_lock is now IRQ disabling instead of BH disabling > 2) Drivers can use dev->xmit_lock in place of their private > driver_priv->tx_lock and this is effectively the same gain > LLTX gave drivers sans the race condition which started this > thread. > 3) NETDEV_TX_LOCKED is gone > 4) LLTX stays, but this means that the driver's TX routine is > %100 lockless. It is only to be used by loopback and other > queueless software devices such as tunnels.
Looks good to me and much cleaner than what I initially did. Thanks. -Andi _______________________________________________ openib-general mailing list [email protected] http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
