netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/3]: Seperate netdev address list locking.

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Message-Id: <20080715.004819.141253326.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:48:19 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3]: Seperate netdev address list locking.

From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:54:09 -0700 (PDT)

> The generic TX lock is overloaded to protect both
> ->hard_start_xmit() execution and the unicast/multicast
> device lists.
> 
> These patches seperate out that usage so that the TX
> lock only protects packet transmit.
> 
> This work is pretty straightforward so I will check it
> directly into net-tx-2.6

FWIW, I just respun these and checked them into net-next-2.6
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