On Tuesday 21 August 2007, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > One solution would be to use the xmit_done interrupt. Unfortunately this
> > would
> > require additional locking as multiple interrupts can happen at two or more
> > cpus. Do you have any better ideas?
>
> The only reason that we don't do it in skb_xmit_done() is because
> kfree_skb() isn't supposed to be called from an interrupt. But there's
> dev_kfree_skb_any() which can be used.
That will simply trigger a softirq, right? If you need the softirq anyway,
why not do all the tx handling in the poll() method like other drivers?
Arnd <><
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