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Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 21:35:36 -0400 From: jamal <hadi@...erus.ca> To: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@...ibm.com> Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, auke-jan.h.kok@...el.com, jeff@...zik.org, kaber@...sh.net, peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@...el.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, jesse.brandeburg@...el.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] NET: Multiqueue network device support. On Thu, 2007-07-06 at 17:31 -0700, Sridhar Samudrala wrote: > If the QDISC_RUNNING flag guarantees that only one CPU can call > dev->hard_start_xmit(), then why do we need to hold netif_tx_lock > for non-LLTX drivers? I havent stared at other drivers, but for e1000 seems to me even if you got rid of LLTX that netif_tx_lock is unnecessary. Herbert? cheers, jamal - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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