On Fri, 2006-04-08 at 20:25 +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > Well it's not that good since the current code only takes the > lock in exceptional circumstances while my patch does the atomic > op unconditionally.
yes, it would be nice to fix that. However, from a selfish angle, my worries are more about the overload case ;-> logically it is more likely you have a lot less CPU resources when overloaded than in the common case; actually now i have said "common" 100 times i understand Jesse better ;->. > But then again the current code is wrong :) indeed. cheers, jamal - 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
