Re: [PATCH 2.6] natsemi.c NAPI

["David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 15:07:46 -0400
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 11:57:46AM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> > This driver (before the NAPI patch) is a bit buggy, it does
> > no RX processing SMP locking.  So if one one cpu you're doing
> > RX interrupt processing, and on another cpu tx_timeout() runs
> > we're totally screwed.
> 
> RX processing in current natsemi only happens in irq, and the natsemi
> driver properly disables irqs when it needs to, AFAICS, using
> enable/disable_irq().

Aha, ok that works.