Re: [PATCH 6/6]: powerpc/cell spidernet refine locking

2006-10-02 Thread Linas Vepstas
On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 07:47:52PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > 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 o

Re: [PATCH 6/6]: powerpc/cell spidernet refine locking

2006-09-29 Thread Andrew Morton
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 fi

[PATCH 6/6]: powerpc/cell spidernet refine locking

2006-09-29 Thread Linas Vepstas
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 thre

[PATCH 6/6]: powerpc/cell spidernet refine locking

2006-08-18 Thread Linas Vepstas
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 thr