netdev - Re: [PATCH RFC 1/2] tun: don't require serialization lock on tx

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Date:	Wed, 13 Apr 2016 07:39:51 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
Cc:	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>,
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Greg Kurz <gkurz@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>,
	Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 1/2] tun: don't require serialization lock on tx

On Wed, 2016-04-13 at 16:54 +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:

> OK, now I understand what the duplication is about.
> What about NETDEV_TX_LOCKED? Looks like it might have
> the same effect?
> 
> This might be worth documenting in include/linux/netdevice.h,
> might it not?

I believe the intent is to get rid of NETDEV_TX_LOCKED at some point.

Some drivers seem to abuse it.

For example, drivers/infiniband/hw/nes/nes_nic.c is clearly completely
buggy :(