netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/5] sky2: Resolve sky2_down/transmit races, lockless transmit

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Message-ID: <20090803085230.1fafee1a@nehalam>
Date:	Mon, 3 Aug 2009 08:52:30 -0700
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Mike McCormack <mikem@...g3k.org>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] sky2: Resolve sky2_down/transmit races, lockless
 transmit

On Mon, 3 Aug 2009 20:07:49 +0900
Mike McCormack <mikem@...g3k.org> wrote:

> Hi Stephen,
> 
> Here is an alternate (and more intrusive) patch set to solve the
> transmit during restart issues.
> 
> These patches avoid introducing a new state variable by
> 
> * reworking the transmit queue to work without locks
> * tweaking sky2_down() to avoid invalid tx queue positions being
> received in the status queue
> 
> Please let me know if this looks better,

Looks good, I will checkout on a couple of (older) boards as well.

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