On Thu, 2007-07-06 at 17:31 -0700, Sridhar Samudrala wrote: > If the QDISC_RUNNING flag guarantees that only one CPU can call > dev->hard_start_xmit(), then why do we need to hold netif_tx_lock > for non-LLTX drivers?
I havent stared at other drivers, but for e1000 seems to me even if you got rid of LLTX that netif_tx_lock is unnecessary. Herbert? cheers, jamal - 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
