netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/3][NET_BATCH] net core use batching

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Message-Id: <1191896149.4373.157.camel@localhost>
Date:	Mon, 08 Oct 2007 22:15:49 -0400
From:	jamal <hadi@...erus.ca>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, jeff@...zik.org,
	peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@...el.com, krkumar2@...ibm.com,
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	randy.dunlap@...cle.com, sri@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3][NET_BATCH] net core use batching

On Tue, 2007-09-10 at 10:04 +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:

> Please revert
> 
> commit 41843197b17bdfb1f97af0a87c06d24c1620ba90
> Author: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@...erus.ca>
> Date:   Tue Sep 25 19:27:13 2007 -0700
> 
>     [NET_SCHED]: explict hold dev tx lock
> 
> As this change introduces potential reordering and I don't think
> we've discussed this aspect sufficiently.

How does it introduce reordering?

cheers,
jamal

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