On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 07:17:48PM -0400, jamal wrote: > > So would the holding of the tx lock at the top layer/qdisc_restart level > not help?
Yes it should so the corresponding fix for tg3 would be simpler. > Actually the stat i captured was not related to this, rather it was the > number of times we entered qdisc_is_running and were unable to get a > packet. I am using the simple pfifo so it cant be the scheduler refusing > to give us a packet. I have a feeling it is just enthusiastic wake up of > the tx softirq. Thoughts on this? I will add checks to be sure. Interesting. I can't really think of why it'd do that so some extra checks would really help. 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
