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Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 18:48:19 +1000 From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> To: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Krzysztof Halasa <khc@...waw.pl>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.18-rc5 with GRE, iptables and Speedtouch ADSL, PPP over ATM On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 12:44:14PM +0400, Alexey Kuznetsov wrote: > > Seems, it serializes mod_timer and timer handler to keep timer > in predictable state. Maybe, this is not necessary. A priori, it is required. > > Note that in dev_watchdog_down() queue_lock is released before > taking xmit_lock. Probably, this is the thing which was supposed > to be done in dev_watchdog_up() too. Right, in that case this should definitely be unncessary because both dev_watchdog_up and dev_watchdog_up are called under RTNL. The function __dev_watchdog_up could possibly be dodgy though but that's a different story. Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- VGER BF report: H 3.52484e-12 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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