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

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Message-Id: <1190760218.4244.35.camel@localhost>
Date:	Tue, 25 Sep 2007 18:43:38 -0400
From:	jamal <hadi@...erus.ca>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	"Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P" <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@...el.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, krkumar2@...ibm.com,
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	sri@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] [NET_SCHED] explict hold dev tx lock

On Tue, 2007-25-09 at 18:15 -0400, jamal wrote:

> A further optimization i made was to reduce the time it takes to hold
> the tx lock at the driver by moving gunk that doesnt need lock-holding
> into the new method dev->hard_end_xmit() (refer to patch #2)

Sorry, that should have read dev->hard_prep_xmit()

cheers,
jamal

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