In e1000_clean function in drivers/net/e1000_main.c file, tx_ring[0]
is protected by spin lock to prevent from being cleaned by multiple
cpus simultaneously, but rx_ring[0] is not.

Why rx_ring[0] is not protected from multiple cpus ?

Thanks
-Lal

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