From: Eric Dumazet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 16:06:31 +0100
> loopback driver carefully uses per_cpu storage for statistics but updates > loopback_dev.last_rx This has been discussed before, this is an attribute every driver must keep uptodate. Things like bonding use it, for example. Yes, loopback isn't usable with bonding, but it's a bad precedence to set that a useful metric is set for some devices and not for others. Find a cleaner way to fix this SMP cacheline pingpong, thanks. - 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
