On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 19:02:52 -0500 Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> David S. Miller wrote: > > Usually we strive for BH disabling locks in order to decrease the > > amount of hard IRQ disabling time in the kernel. But here, as soon > > as we call into ->hard_start_xmit(), the driver typically turns hard > > IRQs off anyways. > [...] > > Also, changing dev->xmit_lock to be IRQ disabling is not %100 trivial. > > > Agreed on both counts... But in the end it would be safer than the current LLTX usage in drivers which seems like it opening up problems. -- Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ openib-general mailing list [email protected] http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
