| To: | "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
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| Subject: | Re: Locking model for NAPI drivers |
| From: | Greg Banks <gnb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Wed, 01 Jun 2005 18:16:36 +1000 |
| Cc: | Linux Network Development list <netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx> |
| In-reply-to: | <20050531.154847.63995530.davem@davemloft.net> |
| Organization: | Silicon Graphics Inc, Australian Software Group. |
| References: | <20050531.154847.63995530.davem@davemloft.net> |
| Sender: | netdev-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx |
On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 08:48, David S. Miller wrote: > So the idea is, if we can make all of the spinlocks BH locks we'll > solve a whole bunch of problems: > [...] > 2) the driver will actually produce useful profiling data > via oprofile and friends since timer interrupts will run > even while holding the locks That would be really, really nice. Greg. -- Greg Banks, R&D Software Engineer, SGI Australian Software Group. I don't speak for SGI. |
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