Re: [PATCH 3/7] skge: use per-port phy locking

2007-03-22 Thread Jeff Garzik
Stephen Hemminger wrote: Rather than a workqueue and a per-board mutex to control PHY, use a tasklet and spinlock. Tasklet is lower overhead and works just as well for this. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Like we give a crap about overhead of PHY code. This seems like th

[PATCH 3/7] skge: use per-port phy locking

2007-03-16 Thread Stephen Hemminger
Rather than a workqueue and a per-board mutex to control PHY, use a tasklet and spinlock. Tasklet is lower overhead and works just as well for this. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/net/skge.c | 82 - drivers/n