netdev - RE: [PATCH 1/4] [NET_SCHED] explict hold dev tx lock

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Date:	Mon, 24 Sep 2007 19:38:19 -0400
From:	jamal <hadi@...erus.ca>
To:	"Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P" <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@...el.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, krkumar2@...ibm.com,
	johnpol@....mipt.ru, herbert@...dor.apana.org.au, kaber@...sh.net,
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Subject: RE: [PATCH 1/4] [NET_SCHED] explict hold dev tx lock

On Mon, 2007-24-09 at 15:57 -0700, Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P wrote:

> I've looked at that as a candidate to use.  The lock for enqueue would
> be needed when actually placing the skb into the appropriate software
> queue for the qdisc, so it'd be quick.

The enqueue is easy to comprehend. The single device queue lock should
suffice. The dequeue is interesting:
Maybe you can point me to some doc or describe to me the dequeue aspect;
are you planning to have an array of txlocks per, one per ring?
How is the policy to define the qdisc queues locked/mapped to tx rings? 

cheers,
jamal

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