netdev - Re: netpoll + xmit

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Message-ID: <20090731012753.GA25895@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:	Fri, 31 Jul 2009 09:27:53 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
Cc:	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Matt Carlson <mcarlson@...adcom.com>
Subject: Re: netpoll + xmit_lock == deadlock

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 09:02:22PM -0400, Neil Horman wrote:
>
> Under what conditions do you try to take the xmit_lock from within a drivers
> ->poll routine?  Do you have an example?

tg3
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