On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 19:02:52 -0500
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> David S. Miller wrote:
> > Usually we strive for BH disabling locks in order to decrease the
> > amount of hard IRQ disabling time in the kernel. But here, as soon
> > as we call into ->hard_start_xmit(), the driver typically turns hard
> > IRQs off anyways.
> [...]
> > Also, changing dev->xmit_lock to be IRQ disabling is not %100 trivial.
>
>
> Agreed on both counts...
But in the end it would be safer than the current LLTX usage in drivers
which seems like it opening up problems.
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Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxx>
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