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Re: tx_timeout and timer serialisation

To: Bogdan.Costescu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Bogdan Costescu)
Subject: Re: tx_timeout and timer serialisation
From: kuznet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 22:08:42 +0400 (MSK DST)
Cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10005031555290.2681-100000@kenzo.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de> from "Bogdan Costescu" at May 3, 0 04:17:56 pm
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Hello!

> Sorry, I didn't understand from this discussion if hard_start_xmit is
> protected WRT itself 

It is.


>               outside the driver or the driver should implement
> locks to assure that the xxx_start_xmit routine is not executed
> simultaneously on 2 (or more) CPUs.

It should not.

Alexey

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