netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] vlan: multiqueue vlan devices

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Date:	Thu, 03 Sep 2009 02:20:14 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	shemminger@...tta.com, brian.haley@...com, kaber@...sh.net,
	jarkao2@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] vlan: multiqueue vlan devices

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2009 11:17:13 +0200

> [PATCH net-next-2.6] vlan: enable multiqueue xmits
> 
> vlan_dev_hard_start_xmit() & vlan_dev_hwaccel_hard_start_xmit()
> select txqueue number 0, instead of using index provided by
> skb_get_queue_mapping().
> 
> This is not correct after commit 2e59af3dcbdf11635c03f
> [vlan: multiqueue vlan device] because
> txq->tx_packets  & txq->tx_bytes changes are performed on
> a single location, and not the right locking.
> 
> Fix is to take the appropriate struct netdev_queue pointer
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>

Details details :-)

Looks good, applied!
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