| To: | ak@xxxxxx (Andi Kleen) |
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| Subject: | Re: PATCH 2.4.0.9.2: export ethtool interface |
| From: | kuznet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx |
| Date: | Mon, 2 Oct 2000 22:01:27 +0400 (MSK DST) |
| Cc: | ak@xxxxxx, andrewm@xxxxxxxxxx, davem@xxxxxxxxxx, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx |
| In-reply-to: | <20001002193718.A11667@xxxxxxxxxxx> from "Andi Kleen" at Oct 2, 0 07:37:18 pm |
| Sender: | owner-netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx |
Hello! > I guess we're talking about different things again. I was worrying > about the ioctls not being reentrant against themselves, not against the > RX/TX threads in interrupts. I mean the same. > This is e.g. the case with PPP ioctls calling into the tty layer. Nothing changed to worse side as well. PPP does lots of SMP _locking_. This locking can be wrong, of course. But BKL is apparently does not play there as well. Alexey |
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