From: Evgeniy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 18:55:57 +0400
> I would not call that wrong - system prevents some threads from removing > kevents which are counted to be transfered to the userspace, i.e. when > dequeuing was awakened and it had seen some events it is possible, that > when it will dequeue them part will be removed by other thread, so I > prevent this. Queue is all that matters to be synchronized, so it seems better to have a mutex on the queue rather than a global one. That way, user can only hurt himself. - 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