On 03.03.2015 18:42, Florian Fainelli wrote: > 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?
While I do have several SMP capable boards here, I'm not sure what I'm supposed to test and especially how. I mean I can test whether it breaks things, but for testing whether it fixes things I would need some help on how to break it first ;-) Jonas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
