From: Eric Dumazet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 01:10:44 +0200
> Looking at tg3_tx() more closely, I am not convinced it really needs > to lock tp->tx_lock during the loop. tp->tx_cons (swidx) is changed > in this function only, and could be changed to an atomic_t It's one idea, bnx2.c does something similar. Don't look at the trick acenic.c uses, that deadlocks the system if the chip should stop processing TX packets for some reason. - 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
