David Miller <da...@davemloft.net> writes: > From: Måns Rullgård <m...@mansr.com> > Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 19:09:19 +0000 > >> David Miller <da...@davemloft.net> writes: >> >>> From: Måns Rullgård <m...@mansr.com> >>> Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 18:25:05 +0000 >>> >>>> If the TX DMA channel is idle when start_xmit is called, it can be >>>> started immediately. Checking the DMA status and starting it if >>>> idle has to be done atomically somehow. >>> >>> ->ndo_start_xmit() is guaranteed to be invoked atomically, protected >>> by the TX queue spinlock. >> >> Yes, but the DMA needs to be restarted from some other context if it was >> busy when start_xmit checked. > > Then you can probably use the TXQ lock in the interrupt handler just for > that.
That seems a bit heavy-handed when the critical section for this is only a tiny part of the start_xmit function. -- Måns Rullgård m...@mansr.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
