Re: [PATCH net-next 0/6] net: core: remove TX_LOCKED support

2016-04-26 Thread David Miller
From: Florian Westphal Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2016 21:38:08 +0200 > Not that many users left, lets kill it. > > TX_LOCKED was meant to be used by LLTX drivers when spin_trylock() > failed. Stack then re-queued if collisions happened on different > cpus or free'd the skb to prevent deadlocks. >

[PATCH net-next 0/6] net: core: remove TX_LOCKED support

2016-04-24 Thread Florian Westphal
Not that many users left, lets kill it. TX_LOCKED was meant to be used by LLTX drivers when spin_trylock() failed. Stack then re-queued if collisions happened on different cpus or free'd the skb to prevent deadlocks. Most of the driver removal patches fall into one of three categories: 1.