Hi Michael: On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 09:51:03PM -0700, Michael Chan wrote: > > > That's why I suggest that every NIC that uses this feature be forced > > to do what TG3 does so only BH disabling is needed. Once that's done > > they can just use xmit_lock and everyone will be happy again. > > As long as the tx completion is all done in NAPI, it can use BH > disabling > without irq disabling.
Yes, TG3 does not disable IRQs when taking its TX lock. So do you see any problems with replacing the TG3 TX lock using xmit_lock? Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
