netdev - Re: [PATCH 3/7] skge: use per-port phy locking

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Date:	Fri, 23 Mar 2007 01:49:41 -0400
From:	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...ox.com>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/7] skge: use per-port phy locking

Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> Rather than a workqueue and a per-board mutex to control PHY,
> use a tasklet and spinlock. Tasklet is lower overhead and works
> just as well for this.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>

Like we give a crap about overhead of PHY code.

This seems like the wrong direction to me, but let's see where this leads.

	Jeff



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