On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 18:29:11 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Linas Vepstas) wrote:
> The transmit side of the spider ethernet driver currently > places locks around some very large chunks of code. This > results in a fair amount of lock contention is some cases. > This patch makes the locks much more fine-grained, protecting > only the cirtical sections. One lock is used to protect > three locations: the queue head and tail pointers, and the > queue low-watermark location. You have spider_net_set_low_watermark() walking the tx_chain outside tx_chain.lock. Are you sure about that? - 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
