On Fri, 2007-11-05 at 13:56 +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > I meant no locks during processing of the packets (pci read/write, dma > setup and so on), of course it is needed to dequeue a packet, but only > for that operation.
I dont think you can avoid the lock Evgeniy. You need to protect against the tx ring having some other things happening to it from the napi poll or netdev interupts (most of the drivers touch the tx ring on the napi poll). 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
