netdev - Re: Kernel WARNING: at net/core/dev.c:1330 __netif

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Date:	Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:43:35 +0200
From:	Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...il.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	peterz@...radead.org, Larry.Finger@...inger.net, kaber@...sh.net,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...hat.com
Subject: Re: Kernel WARNING: at net/core/dev.c:1330
	__netif_schedule+0x2c/0x98()

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 01:16:07PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
...
> There will always be a need for a "stop all the TX queues" operation.

The question is if the current way is "all correct". As a matter of
fact I think Peter's doubts could be justified: taking "USHORT_MAX"
locks looks really dubious (so maybe it's not so strange lockdep
didn't get used to this).

Jarek P.
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