On Thu, 2007-07-06 at 15:44 -0700, David Miller wrote: > From: jamal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 17:57:25 -0400 > > > I empathize but take a closer look; seems mostly useless. > > I thought E1000 still uses LLTX, and if so then multiple cpus can most > definitely get into the ->hard_start_xmit() in parallel.
AFAICS, only one CPU can dequeue from the qdisc i.e s/he who holds __LINK_STATE_QDISC_RUNNING is the only one who can call qdisc_restart and only s/he can enter ->hard_start_xmit(). Am i missing something? 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
