netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/7] r8152: tx/rx improvement

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Message-Id: <20140307.162732.1801095905509663010.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 07 Mar 2014 16:27:32 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	hayeswang@...ltek.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, nic_swsd@...ltek.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/7] r8152: tx/rx improvement

From: Hayes Wang <hayeswang@...ltek.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 11:04:33 +0800

>  - Select the suitable spin lock for each function.
>  - Add additional check to reduce the spin lock.
>  - Up the priority of the tx to avoid interrupted by rx.
>  - Support rx checksum, large send, and IPv6 hw checksum.

Series applied, thanks.

Note that if you ever add ->ndo_poll_controller support to this driver,
you will have to revert your spin_lock_irq{save,restore}() changes to
your ->ndo_start_xmit.

Because the transmit function can indeed be invoked from hard IRQ
context once you support netpoll.
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