Eric Dumazet <eric.duma...@gmail.com> : [...] > This looks like a race when/if RX happens very shortly after one > transmit. > > Francois, are we really saving lot of cpu cycles testing status ?
I'm not sure. An extra smp_rmb and three cache lines at most when there really isn't any work ? Probably not worth it. Can you clarify which kind of race you're thinking about ? -- Ueimor -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
