netdev - Re: [PATCH] bcm63xx_enet: fix poll callback.

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Date:	Tue, 03 Mar 2015 09:42:36 -0800
From:	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To:	Nicolas Schichan <nschichan@...ebox.fr>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
CC:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Tobias Klauser <tklauser@...tanz.ch>,
	Felipe Balbi <balbi@...com>,
	Wilfried Klaebe <w-lkml@...enslange-mailadresse.de>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...hat.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Jonas Gorski <jogo@...nwrt.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bcm63xx_enet: fix poll callback.

On 03/03/15 05:53, Nicolas Schichan wrote:
> On 03/03/2015 02:42 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>>> To avoid that, I would take priv->tx_lock only once, or add a limit on
>>> the number of skbs that can be drained per round.
>>
>> Something like this (untested) patch
> 
> I'm not against testing this patch, but we do not have any SMP capable bcm63xx
> board here so I don't think it will be of any use.
> 
> bcm6358 and bcm6368 do indeed have two MIPS threads, but SMP is not possible
> (due to a data cache or TLB shared across all MIPS threads , unbearably
> complicating things, IIRC).

6358 does have the shared TLB (early BMIPS4350), but 6368 (later
BMIPS4350) runs just fine in a regular SMP configuration, that's the
default for OpenWrt actually. Maybe Jonas has something readily
available he could test on?

> 
> bcm63xx ARM SoCs look like they can support SMP though.

These SoCs do not use this Ethernet controller at all.
-- 
Florian
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