netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/9] mlx4_en: Removed TX locking when polling TX cq

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Message-Id: <20081225.181616.195227579.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 25 Dec 2008 18:16:16 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	yevgenyp@...lanox.co.il
Cc:	jeff@...zik.org, rdreier@...co.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	general@...ts.openfabrics.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/9] mlx4_en: Removed TX locking when polling TX cq

From: Yevgeny Petrilin <yevgenyp@...lanox.co.il>
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 12:00:22 +0200

> There is no need to synchronize the polling with the transmit
> function. The only place to synchronize is when we process
> the cq from the transmit function. Also removed spin_lock_irq,
> and using spin_trylock, if somebody else is already processing the cq,
> no need to wait for it to finish.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yevgeny Petrilin <yevgenyp@...lanox.co.il>

Applied.
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