On Mon, 05 Jun 2006 14:29:45 -0700 "Michael Chan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 15:58 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > > > > Since you are going more lockless, you probably need memory barriers. > > No, we're not going more lockless. We're simply replacing the private > tx_lock with dev->xmit_lock by dropping the LLTX feature flag. The > amount of locking is exactly the same as before. Those spin lock's were also acting as barriers. Are you sure code is safe in the face of cpu reordering. -- If one would give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I would find something in them to have him hanged. -- Cardinal Richlieu - 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
