On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 10:14:30PM -0400, jamal wrote: > > You forgot QDISC_RUNNING Dave;-> the above cant happen. > Essentially at any one point in time, we are guaranteed that we can have > multiple cpus enqueueing but only can be dequeueing (the one that > managed to grab QDISC_RUNNING) i.e multiple producers to the qdisc queue > but only one consumer. Only the dequeuer has access to the txlock.
Good point. You had me worried for a sec :) Dave, Jamal's patch is fine as it is and doesn't actually create any packet reordering. Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt - 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
