On 1/23/07, Thibaut VARENE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
- As Jarek pointed out, you're checking twice the value of mp->tx_desc_count, which means dereferencing a pointer and accessing memory twice. I don't know how perf-critical this bit of code is, but I wonder which of keeping the lock for a long time or doing what you is better (I'm being anal and you probably know that better than me :)
Forget that. That's an irq disabling lock, it's worse than anything else :) -- Thibaut VARENE http://www.parisc-linux.org/~varenet/ - 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