Re: bk16 changes to cbq

[jamal <hadi@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 2004-07-03 at 13:16, David S. Miller wrote:
> On 03 Jul 2004 09:36:50 -0400

> The test is racy with drivers, on the very next line the
> driver could take a TX completion interrupt and unplug the
> queue invalidating the test entirely.

I could be wrong:
The only thing the tx complete can do is open up the device for
more packets to tx into the device... i.e !netif_queue_stopped(sch->dev)
is true in that specific case. 
Which would mean theres no race.

> If the test proves wrong, that's OK because we'll try again
> at the top level of packet queue dispatch.
> 
> There was a good explaination of Stephen's patch
> on netdev when he posted it.

Let me dig into the emails and get back.

cheers,
jamal