netdev - Re: [ANNOUNCE] new driver ixgbe for Intel(R) 10GbE PCI Express adapters.

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Message-ID: <20070614203639.GA23266@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com>
Date:	Thu, 14 Jun 2007 22:36:39 +0200
From:	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
To:	Ayyappan Veeraiyan <Ayyappan.Veeraiyan@...el.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, jeff@...zik.org, auke-jan.h.kok@...el.com,
	arjan@...ux.intel.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] new driver ixgbe for Intel(R) 10GbE PCI Express adapters.

Ayyappan Veeraiyan <Ayyappan.Veeraiyan@...el.com> :
[...]
> netpoll_send_skb should not deadlock because ixgbe_xmit_frame should
> bail out because of this...
> 
>      if (!spin_trylock_irqsave(&tx_ring->tx_lock, flags))
>               /* Collision - tell upper layer to requeue */
>               return NETDEV_TX_LOCKED;
> 
> Right?

Yes.

-- 
Ueimor
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