Re: [NET]: Lockless loopback patch (version 2).

[Arthur Kepner <akepner@xxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 21 Jun 2004, Andrew Morton wrote:

> Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >     [NET]: Lockless loopback patch (version 2).
>
> The loopback_stats handling looks wrong:
>
> ....
> each get_cpu_ptr() does get_cpu(), which increments preempt_count().  But
> there is only a single put_cpu_ptr() in there.
>
>
> Still, I don't see why we need to use alloc_percpu() - why not
> statically allocate it?
>
> This compiles, but does need runtime testing.

Thanks, Andrew. I'll do some basic testing of this change and
post results (probably by tomorrow.)

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Arthur