netdev - Re: [GIT]: Networking

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Message-Id: <20090702.183032.220239220.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:30:32 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	AAbdulla@...dia.com
Cc:	eric.dumazet@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT]: Networking

From: Ayaz Abdulla <AAbdulla@...dia.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 18:11:01 -0700

> Our hw only runs on architectures that provide coherency. i.e x86
> 
> I'm fine with keeping it with both napi_schedule_prep() and __napi_schedule() if you want it to be similar to other drivers.

It has nothing to do with "coherency".

Re-read Eric's emails, the race can happen on x86 quite trivially.
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